U.S. patent number 9,271,283 [Application Number 14/405,369] was granted by the patent office on 2016-02-23 for method and user equipment for transmitting channel state information and method and base station for receiving channel state information.
This patent grant is currently assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC.. The grantee listed for this patent is LG ELECTRONICS INC.. Invention is credited to Joonkui Ahn, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Dongyoun Seo, Illsoo Sohn, Suckchel Yang, Hyangsun You.
United States Patent |
9,271,283 |
You , et al. |
February 23, 2016 |
Method and user equipment for transmitting channel state
information and method and base station for receiving channel state
information
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and a device for
transmitting or receiving channel state information (CSI).
According to the present invention, when a user equipment can be
set with one or more CSI processes per serving cell, a CSI request
field included in downlink control information for a specific
serving cell indicates at least whether a non-periodic CSI report
triggered by the CSI request field is triggered for a set of CSI
process(es) set by a higher layer from among the CSI process(es)
for the one serving cell.
Inventors: |
You; Hyangsun (Anyang-si,
KR), Kim; Kijun (Anyang-si, KR), Yang;
Suckchel (Anyang-si, KR), Park; Jonghyun
(Anyang-si, KR), Ahn; Joonkui (Anyang-si,
KR), Seo; Dongyoun (Anyang-si, KR), Sohn;
Illsoo (Anyang-si, KR) |
Applicant: |
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LG ELECTRONICS INC. |
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LG ELECTRONICS INC. (Seoul,
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Appl.
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14/405,369 |
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June 17, 2013 |
PCT
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June 17, 2013 |
PCT No.: |
PCT/KR2013/005306 |
371(c)(1),(2),(4) Date: |
December 03, 2014 |
PCT
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WO2013/187739 |
PCT
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December 19, 2013 |
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24/10 (20130101); H04L 5/001 (20130101); H04W
72/042 (20130101); H04L 5/0037 (20130101); H04L
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80/04 (20090101); H04W 88/06 (20090101); H04W
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Primary Examiner: Abelson; Ronald B
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang &
Waimey
Parent Case Text
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is the National Stage filing under 35 U.S.C. 371
of International Application No. PCT/KR2013/005306, filed on Jun.
17, 2013, which claims the benefit of earlier filing date and right
of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2013-0067776, filed
on Jun. 13, 2013, and also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional
Application Ser. Nos. 61/659,989, filed on Jun. 15, 2012,
61/667,409, filed on Jul. 2, 2012, 61/667,406, filed on Jul. 2,
2012, 61/695,289, filed on Aug. 30, 2012, and 61/706,778, filed on
Sep. 28, 2012, the contents of which are all hereby incorporated by
reference herein in their entirety.
Claims
The invention claimed is:
1. A method for a user equipment transmitting channel state
information (CSI), the method comprising: receiving downlink
control information for a specific serving carrier, the downlink
control information including a CSI request field; and performing
an aperiodic CSI report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)
of the specific serving carrier, wherein the aperiodic CSI report
is triggered by the CSI request field, and wherein the CSI request
field indicates one of `no aperiodic CSI report is triggered`, `the
aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a first set of CSI
process(es) configured by a higher layer among CSI process(es) for
the specific serving carrier`, `the aperiodic CSI report is
triggered for a second set of CSI process(es) configured by the
higher layer`, and `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a
third set of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layer`, when
the user equipment is configured in a mode in which one or more CSI
processes can be configured for at least one serving carrier, and
wherein each CSI process in the first, second and third sets of CSI
processes is associated with a CSI reference resource for signal
measurement and an interference measurement resource for
interference measurement.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein: the CSI request field
consists of two bits.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein: the user equipment is
configured with one or more serving carriers including the specific
serving carrier.
4. A method for a base station receiving channel state information
(CSI), the method comprising: transmitting downlink control
information for a specific serving carrier to a user equipment, the
downlink control information including a CSI request field; and
receiving an aperiodic CSI report on a physical uplink shared
channel (PUSCH) of the specific serving carrier, wherein the
aperiodic CSI report is triggered by the CSI request field, and
wherein the CSI request field indicates one of `no aperiodic CSI
report is triggered`, `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a
first set of CSI process(es) configured by a higher layer among CSI
process(es) for the specific serving carrier`, `the aperiodic CSI
report is triggered for a second set of CSI process(es) configured
by the higher layer`, and `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered
for a third set of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layer`,
when the user equipment is configured in a mode in which one or
more CSI processes can be configured for at least one serving
carrier, and wherein each CSI process in the first, second and
third sets of CSI processes is associated with a CSI reference
resource for signal measurement and an interference measurement
resource for interference measurement.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein: the CSI request field
consists of two bits.
6. The method according to claim 4, wherein: the user equipment is
configured with a plurality of serving carriers including the
specific serving carrier.
7. A user equipment for transmitting channel state information
(CSI), the user equipment comprising: a radio frequency (RF) unit;
and a processor configured to control the RF unit to: receive
downlink control information for a specific serving carrier, the
downlink control information including a CSI request field; and is
configured to control the RF unit to perform an aperiodic CSI
report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of the specific
serving carrier, wherein the aperiodic CSI report is triggered by
the CSI request field, and wherein the CSI request field indicates
one of `no aperiodic CSI report is triggered`, `the aperiodic CSI
report is triggered for a first set of CSI process(es) configured
by a higher layer among CSI process(es) for the specific serving
carrier`, `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a second set
of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layer`, and `the
aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a third set of CSI
process(es) configured by the higher layer`, when the user
equipment is configured in a mode in which one or more CSI
processes can be configured for at least one serving carrier, and
wherein each CSI process in the first, second and third sets of CSI
processes is associated with a CSI reference resource for signal
measurement and an interference measurement resource for
interference measurement.
8. The user equipment according to claim 7, wherein: the CSI
request field consists of two bits.
9. The user equipment according to claim 7, wherein: the user
equipment is configured with a plurality of serving carriers
including the specific serving carrier.
10. A base station for receiving channel state information (CSI),
the base station comprising: a radio frequency (RF) unit; and a
processor configured to control the RF unit to: transmit downlink
control information for a specific serving carrier to a user
equipment, the downlink control information including a CSI request
field; and receive an aperiodic CSI report on a physical uplink
shared channel (PUSCH) of the specific serving carrier, wherein the
aperiodic CSI report is triggered by the CSI request field, and
wherein the CSI request field indicates one of `no aperiodic CSI
report is triggered`, `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a
first set of CSI process(es) configured by a higher layer among CSI
process(es) for the specific serving carrier`, `the aperiodic CSI
report is triggered for a second set of CSI process(es) configured
by the higher layer`, and `the aperiodic CSI report is triggered
for a third set of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layer`,
when the user equipment is configured in a mode in which one or
more CSI processes can be configured for at least one serving
carrier, and wherein each CSI process in the first, second and
third sets of CSI processes is associated with a CSI reference
resource for signal measurement and an interference measurement
resource for interference measurement.
11. The base station according to claim 10, wherein: the CSI
request field consists of two bits.
12. The user equipment according to claim 10, wherein: the user
equipment is configured with a plurality of serving carriers
including the specific serving carrier.
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system
and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting
or receiving channel state information.
BACKGROUND ART
With appearance and spread of machine-to-machine (M2M)
communication and a variety of devices such as smartphones and
tablet PCs and technology demanding a large amount of data
transmission, data throughput needed in a cellular network has
rapidly increased. To satisfy such rapidly increasing data
throughput, carrier aggregation technology, cognitive radio
technology, etc. for efficiently employing more frequency bands and
multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology, multi-base
station (BS) cooperation technology, etc. for raising data capacity
transmitted on limited frequency resources have been developed.
A general wireless communication system performs data
transmission/reception through one downlink (DL) band and through
one uplink (UL) band corresponding to the DL band (in case of a
frequency division duplex (FDD) mode), or divides a prescribed
radio frame into a UL time unit and a DL time unit in the time
domain and then performs data transmission/reception through the
UL/DL time unit (in case of a time division duplex (TDD) mode). A
base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) transmit and receive
data and/or control information scheduled on a prescribed time unit
basis, e.g. on a subframe basis. The data is transmitted and
received through a data region configured in a UL/DL subframe and
the control information is transmitted and received through a
control region configured in the UL/DL subframe. To this end,
various physical channels carrying radio signals are formed in the
UL/DL subframe. In contrast, carrier aggregation technology serves
to use a wider UL/DL bandwidth by aggregating a plurality of UL/DL
frequency blocks in order to use a broader frequency band so that
more signals relative to signals when a single carrier is used can
be simultaneously processed.
In addition, a communication environment has evolved into
increasing density of nodes accessible by a user at the periphery
of the nodes. A node refers to a fixed point capable of
transmitting/receiving a radio signal to/from the UE through one or
more antennas. A communication system including high-density nodes
may provide a better communication service to the UE through
cooperation between the nodes.
Such a multi-node cooperative communication scheme in which a
plurality of nodes performs communication with the UE using the
same time-frequency resource has much better data throughput than a
conventional communication scheme in which the nodes perform
communication with the UE without any cooperation by operating as
independent BSs.
A multi-node system may perform cooperative communication using a
plurality of nodes, each node operating as a BS, an access point,
an antenna, an antenna group, a radio remote head (RRH), or a radio
remote unit (RRU). In addition, even though a plurality of nodes
does not directly participate in signal transmission or signal
reception simultaneously, since the nodes are capable of performing
signal transmission/reception while reducing mutual interference
therebetween, overall communication system throughput can be
raised.
Unlike a conventional centralized antenna system in which antennas
converge upon a BS, the nodes are typically separated from each
other by a predetermined interval or more in the multi-node system.
The nodes may be managed by one or more BSs or BS controllers for
controlling the operation thereof or scheduling data
transmission/reception therethrough. Each node is connected to the
BS or BS controller for managing the node through a cable or a
dedicated line.
Such a multi-node system may be regarded as a type of MIMO system
in that distributed nodes are capable of communicating with a
single UE or multiple UEs by simultaneously transmitting/receiving
different streams. However, since the multi-node system transmits
signals using nodes distributed at various locations, a
transmission region which should be covered by each antenna
decreases in comparison with antennas included in the conventional
centralized antenna system. Accordingly, compared with a
conventional system implementing MIMO technology in the centralized
antenna system, a transmit power needed when each antenna transmits
a signal may be reduced in the multi-node system. In addition,
since the transmission distance between an antenna and a UE is
shortened, path loss is reduced and high-speed data transmission is
achieved. Therefore, transmission capacity and power efficiency of
a cellular system can be enhanced and communication performance
having relatively uniform quality can be satisfied irrespective of
the locations of UEs in a cell. Furthermore, in the multi-node
system, since BS(s) or BS controller(s) connected to multiple nodes
performs cooperative data transmission/reception, signal loss
generated in a transmission process is reduced. In addition, when
nodes distant from each other by a predetermined distance or more
perform cooperative communication with the UE, correlation and
interference between antennas are reduced. Hence, according to the
multi-node cooperative communication scheme, a high signal to
interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) can be achieved.
Due to such advantages of the multi-node system, in the
next-generation mobile communication system, the multi-node system
has emerged as a new basis of cellular communication through
combination with or by replacing conventional centralized antenna
systems in order to reduce additional installation costs of a BS
and maintenance costs of a backhaul network and simultaneously to
expand service coverage and enhance channel capacity and SINR.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Technical Problems
Since communication up to now has been mainly performed between a
single node and a UE, a scheme in which the UE reports a channel
state has also been established based on a single carrier and the
single node. A new channel state reporting scheme is needed in
consideration of a situation in which a plurality of carriers is
used for communication for the UE and/or a situation in which a
plurality of nodes coordinate to provide the UE with a
communication service.
The technical objects that can be achieved through the present
invention are not limited to what has been particularly described
hereinabove and other technical objects not described herein will
be more clearly understood by persons skilled in the art from the
following detailed description.
Technical Solutions
In an aspect of the present invention, provided herein is a method
for transmitting channel state information (CSI) by a user
equipment. The method comprises: receiving downlink control
information for a specific serving cell, the downlink control
information including a CSI request field; and performing an
aperiodic CSI report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of
the specific serving cell, wherein the aperiodic CSI report is
triggered by the CSI request field. The CSI request field may
indicate whether or not the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a
set of CSI process(es) configured by a higher layer among CSI
process(es) for the serving cell when the user equipment can be
configured with one or more CSI processes per serving cell.
In another aspect of the present invention, provided herein is a
method for receiving channel state information (CSI) by a base
station. The method comprises: transmitting downlink control
information for a specific serving cell to a user equipment, the
downlink control information including a CSI request field; and
receiving an aperiodic CSI report on a physical uplink shared
channel (PUSCH) of the specific serving cell, wherein the aperiodic
CSI report is triggered by the CSI request field.
In still another aspect of the present invention, provided herein
is a user equipment for transmitting channel state information
(CSI). The user equipment comprises: a radio frequency (RF) unit
and a processor configured to control the RF unit, wherein the
processor is configured to control the RF unit to receive downlink
control information for a specific serving cell, the downlink
control information including a CSI request field; and is
configured to control the RF unit to perform an aperiodic CSI
report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of the specific
serving cell, and the aperiodic CSI report is triggered by the CSI
request field.
In a further aspect of the present invention, provided herein is a
base station for receiving channel state information (CSI). The
base station comprises: a radio frequency (RF) unit and a processor
configured to control the RF unit, wherein the processor is
configured to control the RF unit to transmit downlink control
information for a specific serving cell to a user equipment, the
downlink control information including a CSI request field; and is
configured to control the RF unit to receive an aperiodic CSI
report on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of the specific
serving cell, and the aperiodic CSI report is triggered by the CSI
request field.
In each aspect of the present invention, the CSI request field may
consist of two bits.
In each aspect of the present invention, the user equipment may be
configured with a plurality of serving cells including the specific
serving cell. If the user equipment is configured in a mode in
which a plurality of CSI processes can be configured for at least
one of the serving cells, the CSI request field may indicate
whether or not the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for the set of
CSI process(es).
In each aspect of the present invention, each of the set of CSI
process(es) is associated with a CSI reference resource for signal
measurement and a interference measurement resource for
interference measurement.
In each aspect of the present invention, the user equipment may
receive the CSI request field in a user equipment specific search
space.
The above technical solutions are merely some parts of the
embodiments of the present invention and various embodiments into
which the technical features of the present invention are
incorporated can be derived and understood by persons skilled in
the art from the following detailed description of the present
invention.
Advantageous Effects
According to the present invention, accuracy of channel state
information (CSI) report can be reinforced in a situation in which
a plurality of carriers is configured for a UE and/or a situation
in which a plurality of nodes participates in communication with
the UE.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that that the
effects that can be achieved through the present invention are not
limited to what has been particularly described hereinabove and
other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly
understood from the following detailed description.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further
understanding of the invention, illustrate embodiments of the
invention and together with the description serve to explain the
principle of the invention.
FIGS. 1(a) and 1(b) illustrate the structure of a radio frame used
in a wireless communication system.
FIG. 2 illustrates the structure of a downlink (DL)/uplink (UL)
slot in a wireless communication system.
FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b) illustrate a radio frame structure for
transmission of a synchronization signal (SS).
FIG. 4 illustrates a secondary synchronization signal (SSS)
generation scheme.
FIG. 5 illustrates the structure of a DL subframe used in a
wireless communication system.
FIG. 6 illustrates configuration of cell specific common reference
signals (CRSs).
FIG. 7 illustrates the structure of a UL subframe used in a
wireless communication system.
FIG. 7 illustrates channel state information reference signal
(CSI-RS) configurations.
FIG. 8 illustrates the structure of a UL subframe used in a
wireless communication system.
FIGS. 9(a) and 9(b) are diagrams for explaining single-carrier
communication and multi-carrier communication.
FIG. 10 illustrates the state of cells in a system supporting
carrier aggregation.
FIGS. 11(a), 11(b), 11(c), and 11(d) illustrate links configurable
according to carrier aggregation and a coordinated multi-point
transmission/reception (CoMP) environment.
FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present
invention.
FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining another embodiment of the
present invention.
FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating elements of a transmitting
device 10 and a receiving device 20 for implementing the present
invention.
MODE FOR INVENTION
Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments
of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the
accompanying drawings. The detailed description, which will be
given below with reference to the accompanying drawings, is
intended to explain exemplary embodiments of the present invention,
rather than to show the only embodiments that can be implemented
according to the invention. The following detailed description
includes specific details in order to provide a thorough
understanding of the present invention. However, it will be
apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may
be practiced without such specific details.
The following techniques, apparatuses, and systems may be applied
to a variety of wireless multiple access systems. Examples of the
multiple access systems include a code division multiple access
(CDMA) system, a frequency division multiple access (FDMA) system,
a time division multiple access (TDMA) system, an orthogonal
frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system, a single carrier
frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) system, and a
multicarrier frequency division multiple access (MC-FDMA) system.
CDMA may be embodied through radio technology such as universal
terrestrial radio access (UTRA) or CDMA2000. TDMA may be embodied
through radio technology such as global system for mobile
communications (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS), or
enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE). OFDMA may be embodied
through radio technology such as institute of electrical and
electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX),
IEEE 802.20, or evolved UTRA (E-UTRA). UTRA is a part of a
universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS). 3rd generation
partnership project (3GPP) long term evolution (LTE) is a part of
evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using E-UTRA. 3GPP LTE employs OFDMA in DL
and SC-FDMA in UL. LTE-advanced (LTE-A) is an evolved version of
3GPP LTE. For convenience of description, it is assumed that the
present invention is applied to 3GPP LTE/LTE-A. However, the
technical features of the present invention are not limited
thereto. For example, although the following detailed description
is given based on a mobile communication system corresponding to a
3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, aspects of the present invention that are
not specific to 3GPP LTE/LTE-A are applicable to other mobile
communication systems.
In some instances, known structures and devices are omitted or are
shown in block diagram form, focusing on important features of the
structures and devices, so as not to obscure the concept of the
present invention. The same reference numbers will be used
throughout this specification to refer to the same or like
parts.
In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) may be a fixed or
mobile device. Examples of the UE include various devices that
transmit and receive user data and/or various kinds of control
information to and from a base station (BS). The UE may be referred
to as a terminal equipment (TE), a mobile station (MS), a mobile
terminal (MT), a user terminal (UT), a subscriber station (SS), a
wireless device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless
modem, a handheld device, etc. In addition, in the present
invention, a BS generally refers to a fixed station that performs
communication with a UE and/or another BS, and exchanges various
kinds of data and control information with the UE and another BS.
The BS may be referred to as an advanced base station (ABS), a
node-B (NB), an evolved node-B (eNB), a base transceiver system
(BTS), an access point (AP), a processing server (PS), etc. In
describing the present invention, a BS will be referred to as an
eNB.
In the present invention, a node refers to a fixed point capable of
transmitting/receiving a radio signal through communication with a
UE. Various types of eNBs may be used as nodes irrespective of the
terms thereof. For example, a BS, a node B (NB), an e-node B (eNB),
a pico-cell eNB (PeNB), a home eNB (HeNB), a relay, a repeater,
etc. may be a node. In addition, the node may not be an eNB. For
example, the node may be a radio remote head (RRH) or a radio
remote unit (RRU). The RRH or RRU generally has a lower power level
than a power level of an eNB. Since the RRH or RRU (hereinafter,
RRH/RRU) is generally connected to the eNB through a dedicated line
such as an optical cable, cooperative communication between RRH/RRU
and the eNB can be smoothly performed in comparison with
cooperative communication between eNBs connected by a radio line.
At least one antenna is installed per node. The antenna may mean a
physical antenna or mean an antenna port, a virtual antenna, or an
antenna group. A node may be referred to as a point. In the
multi-node system, the same cell identity (ID) or different cell
IDs may be used to transmit/receive signals to/from a plurality of
nodes. If the plural nodes have the same cell ID, each of the nodes
operates as a partial antenna group of one cell. If the nodes have
different cell IDs in the multi-node system, the multi-node system
may be regarded as a multi-cell (e.g. a
macro-cell/femto-cell/pico-cell) system. If multiple cells formed
respectively by multiple nodes are configured in an overlaid form
according to coverage, a network formed by the multiple cells is
referred to as a multi-tier network. A cell ID of an RRH/RRU may be
the same as or different from a cell ID of an eNB. When the RRH/RRU
and the eNB use different cell IDs, both the RRH/RRU and the eNB
operate as independent eNBs.
In the multi-node system, one or more eNBs or eNB controllers
connected to multiple nodes may control the nodes such that signals
are simultaneously transmitted to or received from a UE through
some or all nodes. While there is a difference between multi-node
systems according to the nature of each node and implementation
form of each node, multi-node systems are discriminated from single
node systems (e.g. a centralized antenna system (CAS), conventional
MIMO systems, conventional relay systems, conventional repeater
systems, etc.) since a plurality of nodes provides communication
services to a UE in a predetermined time-frequency resource.
Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention with respect to a
method of performing coordinated data transmission using some or
all nodes may be applied to various types of multi-node systems.
For example, a node refers to an antenna group spaced apart from
another node by a predetermined distance or more, in general.
However, embodiments of the present invention, which will be
described below, may even be applied to a case in which a node
refers to an arbitrary antenna group irrespective of node interval.
In the case of an eNB including an X-pole (cross-polarized)
antenna, for example, the embodiments of the preset invention are
applicable on the assumption that the eNB controls a node composed
of an H-pole antenna and a node composed of a V-pole antenna.
A communication scheme through which signals are
transmitted/received via a plurality of transmit (Tx)/receive (Rx)
nodes, signals are transmitted/received via at least one node
selected from a plurality of Tx/Rx nodes, or a node transmitting a
DL signal is discriminated from a node transmitting a UL signal is
called multi-eNB MIMO or coordinated multi-point
transmission/reception (CoMP). Coordinated transmission schemes
from among CoMP communication schemes may be broadly categorized
into joint processing (JP) and scheduling coordination. The former
may be divided into joint transmission (JT)/joint reception (JR)
and dynamic point selection (DPS) and the latter may be divided
into coordinated scheduling (CS) and coordinated beamforming (CB).
DPS may be called dynamic cell selection (DCS). When JP is
performed, a wider variety of communication environments can be
formed, compared to other CoMP schemes. JT refers to a
communication scheme by which a plurality of nodes transmits the
same stream to a UE and JR refers to a communication scheme by
which a plurality of nodes receive the same stream from the UE. The
UE/eNB combine signals received from the plurality of nodes to
restore the stream. In the case of JT/JR, signal transmission
reliability can be improved according to transmit diversity since
the same stream is transmitted to/from a plurality of nodes. In JP,
DPS refers to a communication scheme by which a signal is
transmitted/received through a node selected from a plurality of
nodes according to a specific rule. In the case of DPS, signal
transmission reliability can be improved because a node having a
good channel state between the node and the UE is selected as a
communication node.
In the present invention, a cell refers to a prescribed
geographical area to which one or more nodes provide a
communication service. Accordingly, in the present invention,
communicating with a specific cell may mean communicating with an
eNB or a node which provides a communication service to the
specific cell. In addition, a DL/UL signal of a specific cell
refers to a DL/UL signal from/to an eNB or a node which provides a
communication service to the specific cell. A node providing UL/DL
communication services to a UE is called a serving node and a cell
to which UL/DL communication services are provided by the serving
node is especially called a serving cell. Furthermore, channel
status/quality of a specific cell refers to channel status/quality
of a channel or communication link formed between an eNB or node
which provides a communication service to the specific cell and a
UE. An interfering cell refers to a cell interfering with a
specific cell. Namely, if a signal of a neighboring cell interferes
with a signal of a specific cell, the neighboring cell becomes an
interfering cell with respect to the specific cell and the specific
cell becomes a victim cell with respect to the neighboring cell. If
neighboring cells interfere with each other or unilaterally, such
interference is referred to as inter-cell interference (ICI). The
UE may measure DL channel state received from a specific node using
cell-specific reference signal(s) (CRS(s)) transmitted on a CRS
resource and/or channel state information reference signal(s)
(CSI-RS(s)) transmitted on a CSI-RS resource, allocated by antenna
port(s) of the specific node to the specific node. Meanwhile, a
3GPP LTE/LTE-A system uses the concept of a cell in order to manage
radio resources and a cell associated with the radio resources is
distinguished from a cell of a geographic region. The cell
associated with the radio resources will be described later with
reference to FIGS. 9 and 10.
Hereinafter, the term "cell" means a cell associated with the radio
resource unless particularly mentioned as a cell of a geographical
area. Accordingly, the term serving cell refers to a cell
configured for a UE as the radio resources unless specified
otherwise. However, "cell" in cell specific reference signal (CRS),
"cell" in cell identity, and "cell" in physical layer cell identity
may be cells of a geographical region rather than cells associated
with the radio resources. Hence, in expressions of "CRS of a
serving cell" and "(physical layer) cell identity of a serving
cell", the "serving cell" may be understood as a serving cell
associated with the geographical region rather than a serving cell
associated with the radio resources. Further, in expressions of
"contiguous cell" and "inter-cell interference", the "cell" may be
understood as a cell associated with the geographical region rather
than a cell associated with the radio resources.
3GPP LTE/LTE-A standards define DL physical channels corresponding
to resource elements carrying information derived from a higher
layer and DL physical signals corresponding to resource elements
which are used by a physical layer but which do not carry
information derived from the higher layer. For example, a physical
downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical broadcast channel
(PBCH), a physical multicast channel (PMCH), a physical control
format indicator channel (PCFICH), a physical downlink control
channel (PDCCH), and a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel
(PHICH) are defined as the DL physical channels, and a reference
signal and a synchronization signal are defined as the DL physical
signals. A reference signal (RS), also called a pilot, refers to a
special waveform of a predefined signal known to both an eNB and a
UE. For example, a cell-specific RS (CRS), a UE-specific RS, a
positioning RS (PRS), and channel state information RS (CSI-RS) may
be defined as DL RSs. Meanwhile, the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A standards
define UL physical channels corresponding to resource elements
carrying information derived from the higher layer and UL physical
signals corresponding to resource elements which are used by a
physical layer but which do not carry information derived from the
higher layer. For example, a physical uplink shared channel
(PUSCH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), and a physical
random access channel (PRACH) are defined as the UL physical
channels, and a demodulation reference signal (DM RS) for a UL
control/data signal and a sounding reference signal (SRS) used for
UL channel measurement are defined as the UL physical signals.
In the present invention, a physical downlink control channel
(PDCCH), a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), a
physical hybrid automatic retransmit request indicator channel
(PHICH), and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) refer to a
set of time-frequency resources or resource elements (REs) carrying
downlink control information (DCI), a set of time-frequency
resources or REs carrying a control format indicator (CFI), a set
of time-frequency resources or REs carrying downlink
acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK), and a set of
time-frequency resources or REs carrying downlink data,
respectively. In addition, a physical uplink control channel
(PUCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical
random access channel (PRACH) refer to a set of time-frequency
resources or REs carrying uplink control information (UCI), a set
of time-frequency resources or REs carrying uplink data and a set
of time-frequency resources or REs carrying random access signals,
respectively. In the present invention, in particular, a
time-frequency resource or RE that is assigned to or belongs to
PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH/PRACH is referred to as
PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH/PRACH RE or
PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH/PUCCH/PUSCH/PRACH time-frequency resource,
respectively. Therefore, in the present invention,
PUCCH/PUSCH/PRACH transmission of a UE is conceptually identical to
UCI/uplink data/random access signal transmission on
PUSCH/PUCCH/PRACH, respectively. In addition,
PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH transmission of an eNB is conceptually
identical to downlink data/DCI transmission on
PDCCH/PCFICH/PHICH/PDSCH, respectively.
In the present invention, a CRS port, a UE-RS port, and a CSI-RS
port refers to an antenna port configured to transmit a CRS, an
antenna port configured to transmit a UE-RS, and an antenna port
configured to transmit a CSI-RS, respectively. Antenna ports
configured to transmit CRSs may be distinguished from each other by
the locations of REs occupied by the CRSs according to CRS ports,
antenna ports configured to transmit UE-RSs may be distinguished
from each other by the locations of REs occupied by the UE-RSs
according to UE-RS ports, and antenna ports configured to transmit
CSI-RSs may be distinguished from each other by the locations of
REs occupied by the CSI-RSs according to CSI-RS ports. Therefore,
the terms CRS/UE-RS/CSI-RS ports may also be used to indicate
patterns of REs occupied by the CRSs/UE-RSs/CSI-RSs in a
predetermined resource region.
FIGS. 1(a) and 1(b) illustrate the structure of a radio frame used
in a wireless communication system.
Specifically, FIG. 1(a) illustrates an exemplary structure of a
radio frame which can be used in frequency division multiplexing
(FDD) in 3GPP LTE/LTE-A and FIG. 1(b) illustrates an exemplary
structure of a radio frame which can be used in time division
multiplexing (TDD) in 3GPP LTE/LTE-A. The frame structure of FIG.
1(a) is referred to as frame structure type 1 (FS1) and the frame
structure of FIG. 1(b) is referred to as frame structure type 2
(FS2).
Referring to FIG. 1, a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A radio frame is 10 ms
(307,200T.sub.s) in duration. The radio frame is divided into 10
subframes of equal size. Subframe numbers may be assigned to the 10
subframes within one radio frame, respectively. Here, T.sub.s
denotes sampling time where T.sub.s=1/(2048*15 kHz). Each subframe
is 1 ms long and is further divided into two slots. 20 slots are
sequentially numbered from 0 to 19 in one radio frame. Duration of
each slot is 0.5 ms. A time interval in which one subframe is
transmitted is defined as a transmission time interval (TTI). Time
resources may be distinguished by a radio frame number (or radio
frame index), a subframe number (or subframe index), a slot number
(or slot index), and the like.
A radio frame may have different configurations according to duplex
modes. In FDD mode for example, since DL transmission and UL
transmission are discriminated according to frequency, a radio
frame for a specific frequency band operating on a carrier
frequency includes either DL subframes or UL subframes. In TDD
mode, since DL transmission and UL transmission are discriminated
according to time, a radio frame for a specific frequency band
operating on a carrier frequency includes both DL subframes and UL
subframes.
Table 1 shows an exemplary UL-DL configuration within a radio frame
in TDD mode.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Downlink- to-Uplink Uplink- Switch- downlink
point Subframe number configuration periodicity 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 5 ms D S U U U D S U U U 1 5 ms D S U U D D S U U D 2 5 ms D S U
D D D S U D D 3 10 ms D S U U U D D D D D 4 10 ms D S U U D D D D D
D 5 10 ms D S U D D D D D D D 6 5 ms D S U U U D S U U D
In Table 1, D denotes a DL subframe, U denotes a UL subframe, and S
denotes a special subframe. The special subframe includes three
fields, i.e. downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), guard period (GP),
and uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS). DwPTS is a time slot reserved
for DL transmission and UpPTS is a time slot reserved for UL
transmission. Table 2 shows an example of the special subframe
configuration.
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Extended cyclic prefix in Normal cyclic
prefix in downlink downlink UpPTS UpPTS Normal Extended Normal
Extended Special cyclic cyclic cyclic cyclic subframe prefix in
prefix in prefix in prefix in configuration DwPTS uplink uplink
DwPTS uplink uplink 0 6592 T.sub.s 2192 T.sub.s 2560 T.sub.s 7680
T.sub.s 2192 T.sub.s 2560 T.sub.s 1 19760 T.sub.s 20480 T.sub.s 2
21952 T.sub.s 23040 T.sub.s 3 24144 T.sub.s 25600 T.sub.s 4 26336
T.sub.s 7680 T.sub.s 4384 T.sub.s 5120 T.sub.s 5 6592 T.sub.s 4384
T.sub.s 5120 T.sub.s 20480 T.sub.s 6 19760 T.sub.s 23040 T.sub.s 7
21952 T.sub.s -- -- -- 8 24144 T.sub.s -- -- --
FIG. 2 illustrates the structure of a DL/UL slot structure in a
wireless communication system. In particular, FIG. 2 illustrates
the structure of a resource grid of a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system. One
resource grid is defined per antenna port.
Referring to FIG. 2, a slot includes a plurality of orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain
and includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) in the frequency
domain. The OFDM symbol may refer to one symbol duration. Referring
to FIG. 2, a signal transmitted in each slot may be expressed by a
resource grid including N.sup.DL/UL.sub.RB*N.sup.RB.sub.sc
subcarriers and N.sup.DL/UL.sub.symb OFDM symbols. N.sup.DL.sub.RB
denotes the number of RBs in a DL slot and N.sup.UL.sub.RB denotes
the number of RBs in a UL slot. N.sup.DL.sub.RB and N.sup.UL.sub.RB
depend on a DL transmission bandwidth and a UL transmission
bandwidth, respectively. N.sup.DL.sub.symb denotes the number of
OFDM symbols in a DL slot, N.sup.UL.sub.symb denotes the number of
OFDM symbols in a UL slot, and N.sup.RB.sub.sc denotes the number
of subcarriers configuring one RB.
An OFDM symbol may be referred to as an OFDM symbol, a single
carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) symbol, etc.
according to multiple access schemes. The number of OFDM symbols
included in one slot may be varied according to channel bandwidths
and CP lengths. For example, in a normal cyclic prefix (CP) case,
one slot includes 7 OFDM symbols. In an extended CP case, one slot
includes 6 OFDM symbols. Although one slot of a subframe including
7 OFDM symbols is shown in FIG. 2 for convenience of description,
embodiments of the present invention are similarly applicable to
subframes having a different number of OFDM symbols. Referring to
FIG. 2, each OFDM symbol includes
N.sup.DL/UL.sub.RB*N.sup.RB.sub.sc subcarriers in the frequency
domain. The of the subcarrier may be divided into a data subcarrier
for data transmission, a reference signal (RS) subcarrier for RS
transmission, and a null subcarrier for a guard band and a DC
component. The null subcarrier for the DC component is unused and
is mapped to a carrier frequency f.sub.0 in a process of generating
an OFDM signal or in a frequency up-conversion process. The carrier
frequency is also called a center frequency f.sub.c.
One RB is defined as N.sup.DL/UL.sub.symb (e.g. 7) consecutive OFDM
symbols in the time domain and as N.sup.RB.sub.sc (e.g. 12)
consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. For reference, a
resource composed of one OFDM symbol and one subcarrier is referred
to a resource element (RE) or tone. Accordingly, one RB includes
N.sup.DL/UL.sub.symb*N.sup.RB.sub.sc REs. Each RE within a resource
grid may be uniquely defined by an index pair (k, l) within one
slot. k is an index ranging from 0 to
N.sup.DL/UL.sub.RB*N.sup.RB.sub.sc-1 in the frequency domain, and l
is an index ranging from 0 to N.sup.DL/UL.sub.symb-1 in the time
domain.
Meanwhile, one RB is mapped to one physical resource block (PRB)
and one virtual resource block (VRB). A PRB is defined as
N.sup.DL.sub.symb (e.g. 7) consecutive OFDM or SC-FDM symbols in
the time domain and N.sup.RB.sub.sc (e.g. 12) consecutive
subcarriers in the frequency domain. Accordingly, one PRB is
configured with N.sup.DL/UL.sub.symb*N.sup.RB.sub.sc REs. In one
subframe, two RBs each located in two slots of the subframe while
occupying the same N.sup.RB.sub.sc consecutive subcarriers are
referred to as a physical resource block (PRB) pair. Two RBs
configuring a PRB pair have the same PRB number (or the same PRB
index).
FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b) illustrate a radio frame structure for
transmission of a synchronization signal (SS). Specifically, FIGS.
3(a) and 3(b) illustrate a radio frame structure for transmission
of an SS and a PBCH in frequency division duplex (FDD), wherein
FIG. 3(a) illustrates transmission locations of an SS and a PBCH in
a radio frame configured as a normal cyclic prefix (CP) and FIG.
3(b) illustrates transmission locations of an SS and a PBCH in a
radio frame configured as an extended CP.
If a UE is powered on or newly enters a cell, the UE performs an
initial cell search procedure of acquiring time and frequency
synchronization with the cell and detecting a physical cell
identity of the cell. To this end, the UE may establish
synchronization with the eNB by receiving synchronization signals,
e.g. a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary
synchronization signal (SSS), from the eNB and obtain information
such as a cell identity (ID).
An SS will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3(a)
and 3(b). An SS is categorized into a PSS and an SSS. The PSS is
used to acquire time-domain synchronization such as OFDM symbol
synchronization or slot synchronization and/or frequency-domain
synchronization and the SSS is used to acquire frame
synchronization, a cell group ID, and/or CP configuration of a cell
(i.e. information as to whether a normal CP is used or an extended
CP is used). Referring to FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), each of a PSS and an
SSS is transmitted on two OFDM symbols of every radio frame. More
specifically, SSs are transmitted in the first slot of subframe 0
and the first slot of subframe 5, in consideration of a global
system for mobile communication (GSM) frame length of 4.6 ms for
facilitation of inter-radio access technology (inter-RAT)
measurement. Especially, a PSS is transmitted on the last OFDM
symbol of the first slot of subframe 0 and on the last OFDM symbol
of the first slot of subframe 5 and an SSS is transmitted on the
second to last OFDM symbol of the first slot of subframe 0 and on
the second to last OFDM symbol of the first slot of subframe 5. A
boundary of a corresponding radio frame may be detected through the
SSS. The PSS is transmitted on the last OFDM symbol of a
corresponding slot and the SSS is transmitted on an OFDM symbol
immediately before an OFDM symbol on which the PSS is transmitted.
A transmit diversity scheme of an SS uses only a single antenna
port and standards therefor are not separately defined. That is, a
single antenna port transmission scheme or a transmission scheme
transparent to a UE (e.g. precoding vector switching (PVS), time
switched transmit diversity (TSTD), or cyclic delay diversity
(CDD)) may be used for transmit diversity of an SS.
An SS may represent a total of 504 unique physical layer cell IDs
by a combination of 3 PSSs and 168 SSSs. In other words, the
physical layer cell IDs are divided into 168 physical layer cell ID
groups each including three unique IDs so that each physical layer
cell ID is a part of only one physical layer cell ID group.
Accordingly, a physical layer cell ID N.sup.cell.sub.ID
(=3N.sup.(1).sub.ID+N.sup.(2).sub.ID) is uniquely defined as number
N.sup.(1).sub.ID in the range of 0 to 167 indicating a physical
layer cell ID group and number N.sup.(2).sub.ID from 0 to 2
indicating the physical layer ID in the physical layer cell ID
group. A UE may be aware of one of three unique physical layer IDs
by detecting the PSS and may be aware of one of 168 physical layer
cell IDs associated with the physical layer ID by detecting the
SSS. A length-63 Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence is defined in the
frequency domain and is used as the PSS. As an example, the ZC
sequence may be defined by the following equation.
.function.e.times..pi..times..times..function..times..times.
##EQU00001##
where N.sub.ZC=63 and a sequence element corresponding to a DC
subcarrier, n=31, is punctured.
The PSS is mapped to 6 RBs (=72 subcarriers) near to a center
frequency. Among the 72 subcarriers, 9 remaining subcarriers always
carry a value of 0 and serve as elements facilitating filter design
for performing synchronization. To define a total of three PSSs,
u=24, 29, and 34 are used in Equation 1. Since u=24 and u=34 have a
conjugate symmetry relationship, two correlations may be
simultaneously performed. Here, conjugate symmetry indicates the
relationship of the following Equation.
d.sub.u(n)=(-1).sup.n(d.sub.N.sub.ZC.sub.-u(n))*, when N.sub.ZC is
even number d.sub.u(n)=(d.sub.N.sub.ZC.sub.-u(n))*, when N.sub.ZC
is odd number [Equation 2]
A one-shot correlator for u=29 and u=34 may be implemented using
the characteristics of conjugate symmetry. The entire amount of
calculation can be reduced by about 33.3% as compared with the case
without conjugate symmetry.
In more detail, a sequence d(n) used for a PSS is generated from a
frequency-domain ZC sequence as follows.
.function.e.times..pi..times..times..function..times.e.times..pi..times..-
times..function..times..times..times..times. ##EQU00002##
In Equation 3, the Zadoff-Chu root sequence index u is given by the
following table.
TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 N.sup.(2).sub.ID Root index u 0 25 1 29 2
34
Referring to FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), upon detecting a PSS, a UE may
discern that a corresponding subframe is one of subframe 0 and
subframe 5 because the PSS is transmitted every 5 ms but the UE
cannot discern whether the subframe is subframe 0 or subframe 5.
Accordingly, the UE cannot recognize the boundary of a radio frame
only by the PSS. That is, frame synchronization cannot be acquired
only by the PSS. The UE detects the boundary of a radio frame by
detecting an SSS which is transmitted twice in one radio frame with
different sequences.
FIG. 4 illustrates an SSS generation scheme. Specifically, FIG. 4
illustrates a relationship of mapping of two sequences in the
logical domain to sequences in a physical domain. A sequence used
for the SSS is an interleaved concatenation of two length-31
m-sequences and the concatenated sequence is scrambled by a
scrambling sequence given by a PSS. Here, an m-sequence is a type
of a pseudo noise (PN) sequence.
Referring to FIG. 4, if two m-sequences used for generating an SSS
code are S1 and S2, then two different PSS-based sequences S1 and
S2 are scrambled into to the SSS. In this case, S1 and S2 are
scrambled by different sequences. A PSS-based scrambling code may
be obtained by cyclically shifting an m-sequence generated from a
polynomial of x.sup.5+x.sup.3+1 and 6 sequences are generated by
cyclic shift of the m-sequence according to an index of a PSS.
Next, S2 is scrambled by an S1-based scrambling code. The S1-based
scrambling code may be obtained by cyclically shifting an
m-sequence generated from a polynomial of
x.sup.5+x.sup.4+x.sup.2+x.sup.1+1 and 8 sequences are generated by
cyclic shift of the m-sequence according to an index of S1. The SSS
code is swapped every 5 ms, whereas the PSS-based scrambling code
is not swapped. For example, assuming that an SSS of subframe 0
carries a cell group ID by a combination of (S1, S2), an SSS of
subframe 5 carries a sequence swapped as (S2, S1). Hence, a
boundary of a radio frame of 10 ms can be discerned. In this case,
the used SSS code is generated from a polynomial of
x.sup.5+x.sup.2+1 and a total of 31 codes may be generated by
different cyclic shifts of an m-sequence of length-31.
A combination of two length-31 m-sequences for defining the SSS is
different in subframe 0 and subframe 5 and a total of 168 cell
group IDs are expressed by a combination of the two length-31
m-sequences. The m-sequences used as sequences of the SSS have a
robust property in a frequency selective environment. In addition,
since the m-sequences can be transformed by high-speed m-sequence
transform using fast Hadamard transform, if the m-sequences are
used as the SSS, the amount of calculation necessary for a UE to
interpret the SSS can be reduced. Since the SSS is configured by
two short codes, the amount of calculation of the UE can be
reduced.
Generation of the SSS will now be described in more detail. A
sequence d(0), . . . , d(61) used for the SSS is an interleaved
concatenation of two length-31 binary sequences. The concatenated
sequence is scrambled by a sequence given by the PSS.
A combination of two length-31 sequences for defining the PSS
becomes different in subframe 0 and subframe 5 according to the
following.
.times..function..times..times..function..times..function..times..times..-
times..times..function..times..function..times..times..times..times..times-
..times..function..times..times..function..times..function..times..functio-
n..times..times..times..times..function..times..function..times..function.-
.times..times..times..times..times..times. ##EQU00003##
In Equation 4, 0.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.30. The indices m.sub.0 and
m.sub.1 are derived from the physical-layer cell-identity group
N.sup.(1).sub.ID according to the following.
'.times..times..times..times..times.'.times..times..times..times..times.'-
.function..times.'.function.''.times..times. ##EQU00004##
The output of Equation 5 is listed in Table 4 following Equation
11.
The two sequences s.sup.(m0).sub.0(n) and s.sup.(m1).sub.1(n) are
defined as two different cyclic shifts of the m-sequence s(n).
s.sub.0.sup.(m.sup.0.sup.)(n)=s((n+m.sub.0)mod 31)
s.sub.1.sup.(m.sup.1.sup.)(n)=s((n+m.sub.1)mod 31) [Equation 6]
In Equation 6, s(i)=1-2x(i), 0.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.30, is defined by
the following equation with initial conditions x(0)=0, x(1)=0,
x(2), x(3)=0, x(4)=1. x( +5)=(x( +3)+x( ))mod 2, 0.ltoreq.
.ltoreq.25 [Equation 7]
The two scrambling sequences c.sub.0(n) and c.sub.1(n) depend on
the PSS and are defined by two different cyclic shifts of the
m-sequence c(n) according to the following equation.
c.sub.0(n)=c((n+N.sub.ID.sup.(2))mod 31)
c.sub.1(n)=c((n+N.sub.ID.sup.(2)+3)mod 31) [Equation 8]
In Equation 8, N.sup.(2).sub.ID .epsilon.{0,1,2} is the
physical-layer identity within the physical-layer cell identity
group N.sup.(1).sub.ID and c(i)=1-2x(i) (0.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.30), is
defined by the following equation with initial conditions x(0)=0,
x(1)=0, x(2), x(3)=0, x(4)=1. x( +5)=(x( +3)+x( ))mod 2, 0.ltoreq.
.ltoreq.25 [Equation 9]
The scrambling sequences z.sup.(m0).sub.1(n) and
z.sup.(m1).sub.1(n) are defined by a cyclic shift of the m-sequence
z(n) according to the following equation.
z.sub.1.sup.(m.sup.0.sup.)(n)=z((n+(m.sub.0 mod 8))mod 31)
z.sub.1.sup.(m.sup.1.sup.)(n)=z((n+(m.sub.1 mod 8))mod 31)
[Equation 10]
In Equation 10, m.sub.0 and m.sub.1 are obtained from Table 4
following Equation 11 and z(i)=1-2x(i), 0.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.30, is
defined by the following equation with initial conditions x(0)=0,
x(1)=0, x(2), x(3)=0, x(4)=1. x( +5)=(x( +4)+x( +2)+x( +1)+x( ))mod
2,0.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.25 [Equation 11]
TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 N.sub.ID.sup.(1) m.sub.0 m.sub.1 0 0 1 1 1 2
2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12
12 12 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19
19 20 20 20 21 21 21 22 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 24 25 25 25 26 26 26
27 27 27 28 28 28 29 29 29 30 30 0 2 31 1 3 32 2 4 33 3 5 34 4 6 35
5 7 36 6 8 37 7 9 38 8 10 39 9 11 40 10 12 41 11 13 42 12 14 43 13
15 44 14 16 45 15 17 46 16 18 47 17 19 48 18 20 49 19 21 50 20 22
51 21 23 52 22 24 53 23 25 54 24 26 55 25 27 56 26 28 57 27 29 58
28 30 59 0 3 60 1 4 61 2 5 62 3 6 63 4 7 64 5 8 65 6 9 66 7 10 67 8
11 68 9 12 69 10 13 70 11 14 71 12 15 72 13 16 73 14 17 74 15 18 75
16 19 76 17 20 77 18 21 78 19 22 79 20 23 80 21 24 81 22 25 82 23
26 83 24 27 84 25 28 85 26 29 86 27 30 87 0 4 88 1 5 89 2 6 90 3 7
91 4 8 92 5 9 93 6 10 94 7 11 95 8 12 96 9 13 97 10 14 98 11 15 99
12 16 100 13 17 101 14 18 102 15 19 103 16 20 104 17 21 105 18 22
106 19 23 107 20 24 108 21 25 109 22 26 110 23 27 111 24 28 112 25
29 113 26 30 114 0 5 115 1 6 116 2 7 117 3 8 118 4 9 119 5 10 120 6
11 121 7 12 122 8 13 123 9 14 124 10 15 125 11 16 126 12 17 127 13
18 128 14 19 129 15 20 130 16 21 131 17 22 132 18 23 133 19 24 134
20 25 135 21 26 136 22 27 137 23 28 138 24 29 139 25 30 140 0 6 141
1 7 142 2 8 143 3 9 144 4 10 145 5 11 146 6 12 147 7 13 148 8 14
149 9 15 150 10 16 151 11 17 152 12 18 153 13 19 154 14 20 155 15
21 156 16 22 157 17 23 158 18 24 159 19 25 160 20 26 161 21 27 162
22 28 163 23 29 164 24 30 165 0 7 166 1 8 167 2 9 -- -- -- -- --
--
A UE, which has demodulated a DL signal by performing a cell search
procedure using an SSS and determined time and frequency parameters
necessary for transmitting a UL signal at an accurate time, can
communicate with an eNB only after acquiring system information
necessary for system configuration of the UE from the eNB.
The system information is configured by a master information block
(MIB) and system information blocks (SIBs). Each SIB includes a set
of functionally associated parameters and is categorized into an
MIB, SIB Type 1 (SIB1), SIB Type 2 (SIB2), and SIB3 to SIB8
according to included parameters. The MIB includes most frequency
transmitted parameters which are essential for initial access of
the UE to a network of the eNB. SIB1 includes parameters needed to
determine if a specific cell is suitable for cell selection, as
well as information about time-domain scheduling of the other
SIBs.
The UE may receive the MIB through a broadcast channel (e.g. a
PBCH). The MIB includes DL bandwidth (BW), PHICH configuration, and
a system frame number SFN. Accordingly, the UE can be explicitly
aware of information about the DL BW, SFN, and PHICH configuration
by receiving the PBCH. Meanwhile, information which can be
implicitly recognized by the UE through reception of the PBCH is
the number of transmit antenna ports of the eNB. Information about
the number of transmit antennas of the eNB is implicitly signaled
by masking (e.g. XOR operation) a sequence corresponding to the
number of transmit antennas to a 16-bit cyclic redundancy check
(CRC) used for error detection of the PBCH.
The PBCH is mapped to four subframes during 40 ms. The time of 40
ms is blind detected and explicit signaling about 40 ms is not
separately present. In the time domain, the PBCH is transmitted on
OFDM symbols 0 to 3 of slot 1 in subframe 0 (the second slot of
subframe 0) of a radio frame.
In the frequency domain, a PSS/SSS and a PBCH are transmitted only
in a total of 6 RBs, i.e. a total of 72 subcarriers, irrespective
of actual system BW, wherein 3 RBs are in the left and the other 3
RBs are in the right centering on a DC subcarrier on corresponding
OFDM symbols. Therefore, the UE is configured to detect or decode
the SS and the PBCH irrespective of DL BW configured for the
UE.
After initial cell search, a UE which has accessed a network of an
eNB may acquire more detailed system information by receiving a
PDCCH and a PDSCH according to information carried on the PDCCH.
The UE which has performed the above-described procedure may
perform reception of a PDCCH/PDSCH and transmission of a
PUSCH/PUCCH as a normal UL/DL signal transmission procedure.
FIG. 5 illustrates the structure of a DL subframe used in a
wireless communication system.
A DL subframe is divided into a control region and a data region in
the time domain. Referring to FIG. 5, a maximum of 3 (or 4) OFDM
symbols located in a front part of a first slot of a subframe
corresponds to the control region. Hereinafter, a resource region
for PDCCH transmission in a DL subframe is referred to as a PDCCH
region. OFDM symbols other than the OFDM symbol(s) used in the
control region correspond to the data region to which a physical
downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is allocated. Hereinafter, a
resource region available for PDSCH transmission in the DL subframe
is referred to as a PDSCH region. Examples of a DL control channel
used in 3GPP LTE include a physical control format indicator
channel (PCFICH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a
physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), etc. The PCFICH is
transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of a subframe and carries
information about the number of OFDM symbols available for
transmission of a control channel within a subframe. The PHICH
carries a HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) ACK/NACK
(acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment) signal as a response to UL
transmission.
The control information transmitted through the PDCCH will be
referred to as downlink control information (DCI). The DCI includes
resource allocation information for a UE or UE group and other
control information. Transmit format and resource allocation
information of a downlink shared channel (DL-SCH) are referred to
as DL scheduling information or DL grant. Transmit format and
resource allocation information of an uplink shared channel
(UL-SCH) are referred to as UL scheduling information or UL grant.
The size and usage of the DCI carried by one PDCCH are varied
depending on DCI formats. The size of the DCI may be varied
depending on a coding rate. In the current 3GPP LTE system, various
formats such as formats 0 and 4 for UL and formats 1, 1A, 1B, 1C,
1D, 2, 2A, 2B, 3 and 3A for DL are defined. Combination selected
from control information such as a hopping flag, RB allocation,
modulation coding scheme (MCS), redundancy version (RV), new data
indicator (NDI), transmit power control (TPC), cyclic shift, cyclic
shift demodulation reference signal (DM RS), UL index, channel
quality information (CQI) request, DL assignment index, HARQ
process number, transmitted precoding matrix indicator (TPMI),
precoding matrix indicator (PMI) information is transmitted to the
UE as the DCI. Table 5 illustrates an example of the DCI
format.
TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 DCI format Description 0 Resource grants for
the PUSCH transmissions (uplink) 1 Resource assignments for single
codeword PDSCH transmissions 1A Compact signaling of resource
assignments for single codeword PDSCH 1B Compact signaling of
resource assignments for single codeword PDSCH 1C Very compact
resource assignments for PDSCH (e.g. paging/ broadcast system
nformation) 1D Compact resource assignments for PDSCH using
multi-user MIMO 2 Resource assignments for PDSCH for closed-loop
MIMO operation 2A Resource assignments for PDSCH for open-loop MIMO
operation 2B Resource assignments for PDSCH using up to 2 antenna
ports with UE-specific reference signals 2C Resource assignment for
PDSCH using up to 8 antenna ports with UE-specific reference
signals 3/3A Power control commands for PUCCH and PUSCH with 2-bit/
1-bit power adjustments 4 Scheduling of PUSCH in one UL Component
Carrier with multi-antenna port transmission mode
A plurality of PDCCHs may be transmitted within a control region. A
UE may monitor the plurality of PDCCHs. An eNB determines a DCI
format depending on the DCI to be transmitted to the UE, and
attaches cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to the DCI. The CRC is
masked (or scrambled) with an identifier (for example, a radio
network temporary identifier (RNTI)) depending on usage of the
PDCCH or owner of the PDCCH. For example, if the PDCCH is for a
specific UE, the CRC may be masked with an identifier (for example,
cell-RNTI (C-RNTI)) of the corresponding UE. If the PDCCH is for a
paging message, the CRC may be masked with a paging identifier (for
example, paging-RNTI (P-RNTI)). If the PDCCH is for system
information (in more detail, system information block (SIB)), the
CRC may be masked with system information RNTI (SI-RNTI). If the
PDCCH is for a random access response, the CRC may be masked with a
random access RNTI (RA-RNTI). For example, CRC masking (or
scrambling) includes XOR operation of CRC and RNTI at the bit
level.
The PDCCH is transmitted on an aggregation of one or a plurality of
continuous control channel elements (CCEs). The CCE is a logic
allocation unit used to provide a coding rate based on the status
of a radio channel to the PDCCH. The CCE corresponds to a plurality
of resource element groups (REGs). For example, one CCE corresponds
to nine resource element groups (REGs), and one REG corresponds to
four REs. Four QPSK symbols are mapped to each REG. A resource
element (RE) occupied by the reference signal (RS) is not included
in the REG. Accordingly, the number of REGs within given OFDM
symbols is varied depending on the presence of the RS. The REGs are
also used for other downlink control channels (that is, PDFICH and
PHICH). The number of DCI formats and DCI bits is determined in
accordance with the number of CCEs. CCEs are numbered and used
consecutively. In order to simplify a decoding process, the PDCCH
having a format that includes n CCEs may only start on a CCE having
a CCE number corresponding to a multiple of n. The number of CCEs
used for transmission of a specific PDCCH is determined by the eNB
in accordance with channel status. For example, one CCE may be
required for a PDCCH for a UE (for example, adjacent to eNB) having
a good downlink channel. However, in case of a PDCCH for a UE (for
example, located near the cell edge) having a poor channel, eight
CCEs may be required to obtain sufficient robustness. Additionally,
a power level of the PDCCH may be adjusted to correspond to a
channel status.
In a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, a set of CCEs on which a PDCCH can be
located for each UE is defined. A CCE set in which the UE can
detect a PDCCH thereof is referred to as a PDCCH search space or
simply as a search space (SS). An individual resource on which the
PDCCH can be transmitted in the SS is called a PDCCH candidate. A
set of PDCCH candidates that the UE is to monitor is defined as the
SS. SSs for respective PDCCH formats may have different sizes and a
dedicated SS and a common SS are defined. The dedicated SS is a
UE-specific SS and is configured for each individual UE. The common
SS is configured for a plurality of UEs. The following table shows
aggregation levels for defining SSs.
TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 6 Search space S.sub.k.sup.(L) Number of
Aggregation Size PDCCH Type level L [in CCEs] candidates M.sup.(L)
UE- 1 6 6 specific 2 12 6 4 8 2 8 16 2 Common 4 16 4 8 16 2
For the common search spaces, Y.sub.k is set to 0 for aggregation
levels L=4 and L=8. For the UE SS S.sup.(L).sub.k at aggregation
level L, the variable Y.sub.k is defined by the following equation.
Y.sub.k=(AY.sub.k-1)mod D [Equation 12]
In Equation 12, Y.sub.-1=n.sub.RNTI, A=39827, D=65537 and k=.left
brkt-bot.n.sub.s/2.right brkt-bot., n.sub.s is the slot number
within a radio frame. SI-RNTI, C-RNTI, P-RNTI, RA-RNTI, etc. may be
used as an RNTI for n.sub.RNTI.
For each serving cell on which a PDCCH is monitored, the CCEs
corresponding to PDCCH candidate m of the search space
S.sup.(L).sub.k are given by the following equation.
L{(Y.sub.k+m')mod .left brkt-bot.N.sub.CCE,k/L.right brkt-bot.}+i
[Equation 13]
In Equation 13, Yk may be defined by Equation 12, i=0, . . . , L-1.
For the common search space, m'=m. For the UE SS, for the serving
cell on which the PDCCH is monitored, if a carrier indicator field
is configured for a monitoring UE, for example, if the UE is
informed that the carrier indicator field is present on the PDCCH
by a higher layer, then m'=m+M(L)nCI where nCI is a carrier
indicator field value. The carrier indicator field value is the
same as a serving cell index (ServCellIndex) of a corresponding
serving cell. The serving cell index is a short ID used to identify
a serving cell and, for example, any one of integers from 0 to
`maximum number of carrier frequencies which can be configured for
the UE at a time minus 1` may be allocated to one serving cell as
the serving cell index. That is, the serving cell index may be a
logical index used to identify a specific serving cell among cells
allocated to the UE rather than a physical index used to identify a
specific carrier frequency among all carrier frequencies. In the
meantime, if the UE is not configured with carrier indicator field
(CIF) then m'=m, where m'=0, . . . , M(L)-1. M(L) is the number of
PDCCH candidates to monitor in the given search space. For
reference, the CIF is included in DCI and, in carrier aggregation,
the CIF is used to indicate for which cell the DCI carries
scheduling information. An eNB may inform the UE of whether the DCI
received by the UE may include the CIF through a higher layer
signal. That is, the UE may be configured with the CIF by a higher
layer. Carrier aggregation is described in more detail with
reference to FIGS. 9(a), 9(b), and FIG. 10.
The eNB transmits an actual PDCCH (DCI) on a PDCCH candidate in a
search space and the UE monitors the search space to detect the
PDCCH (DCI). Here, monitoring implies attempting to decode each
PDCCH in the corresponding SS according to all monitored DCI
formats. The UE may detect a PDCCH thereof by monitoring a
plurality of PDCCHs. Basically, the UE does not know the location
at which a PDCCH thereof is transmitted. Therefore, the UE attempts
to decode all PDCCHs of the corresponding DCI format for each
subframe until a PDCCH having an ID thereof is detected and this
process is referred to as blind detection (or blind decoding
(BD)).
For example, it is assumed that a specific PDCCH is CRC-masked with
a radio network temporary identity (RNTI) `A` and information about
data transmitted using a radio resource `B` (e.g. frequency
location) and using transport format information `C` (e.g.
transmission block size, modulation scheme, coding information,
etc.) is transmitted in a specific DL subframe. Then, the UE
monitors the PDCCH using RNTI information thereof. The UE having
the RNTI `A` receives the PDCCH and receives the PDSCH indicated by
`B` and `C` through information of the received PDCCH.
Generally, a DCI format which can be used for the UE differs
according to a transmission mode (TM) configured for the UE. In
other words, for the UE configured for a specific transmission
mode, not all DCI formats but some DCI format(s) corresponding to
the specific transmission mode can be used. For example, the UE is
semi-statically configured by higher layers so as to receive PDSCH
data transmission, which was signaled through a PDCCH, according to
one of transmission modes 1 to 9. To maintain operation load of the
UE according to blind decoding attempt at a predetermined level or
less, not all DCI formats are always simultaneously searched by the
UE. Table 7 illustrates a transmission mode for configuring
multi-antenna technology and a DCI format where the UE performs
blind decoding in accordance with the corresponding transmission
mode.
TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 7 Transmission Transmission scheme of PDSCH
mode DCI format Search Space corresponding to PDCCH Mode 1 DCI
format 1A Common and Single-antenna port, port 0 UE specific by
C-RNTI DCI format 1 UE specific by C-RNTI Single-antenna port, port
0 Mode 2 DCI format 1A Common and Transmit diversity UE specific by
C-RNTI DCI format 1 UE specific by C-RNTI Transmit diversity Mode 3
DCI format 1A Common and Transmit diversity UE specific by C-RNTI
UE specific by C-RNTI DCI format 2A UE specific by C-RNTI Large
delay CDD or Transmit diversity Mode 4 DCI format 1A Common and
Transmit diversity UE specific by C-RNTI DCI format 2 UE specific
by C-RNTI Closed-loop spatial multiplexing or Transmit diversity
Mode 5 DCI format 1A Common and Transmit diversity UE specific by
C-RNTI DCI format 1D UE specific by C-RNTI Multi-user MIMO Mode 6
DCI format 1A Common and Transmit diversity UE specific by C-RNTI
DCI format 1B UE specific by C-RNTI Closed-loop spatial
multiplexing using a single transmission layer Mode 7 DCI format 1A
Common and If the number of PBCH antenna UE specific by C-RNTI
ports is one, Single-antenna port, port 0 is used, otherwise
Transmit diversity DCI format 1 UE specific by C-RNTI
Single-antenna port, port 5 Mode 8 DCI format 1A Common and If the
number of PBCH antenna UE specific by C-RNTI ports is one,
Single-antenna port, port 0 is used, otherwise Transmit diversity
DCI format 2B UE specific by C-RNTI Dual layer transmission, port 7
and 8 or single-antenna port, port 7 or 8 Mode 9 DCI format 1A
Common and Non-MBSFN subframe: If the UE specific by C-RNTI number
of PBCH antenna ports is one, Single-antenna port, port 0 is used,
otherwise Transmit diversity. MBSFN subframe: Single-antenna port,
port 7 DCI format 2C UE specific by C-RNTI Up to 8 layer
transmission, ports 7- 14
Transmission modes 1 to 9 are listed in Table 7 but transmission
modes other than the transmission modes listed in Table 7 may be
defined.
In particular, Table 7 illustrates a relation between PDSCH and
PDCCH configured by C-RNTI. The UE configured to decode the PDCCH
with CRC scrambled in C-RNTI by an upper layer decodes the PDCCH
and also decodes the corresponding PDSCH in accordance with each
combination defined in Table 7. For example, if the UE is
configured in transmission mode 1 by upper layer signaling, the UE
acquires either DCI of DCI format 1A or DCI of DCI format 1 by
respectively decoding the PDCCH through the DCI format 1A and
1.
In order for the receiving device 20 to restore a signal
transmitted by the transmitting device 10, an RS for estimating a
channel between the receiving device and the transmitting device is
needed. RSs may be categorized into RSs for demodulation and RSs
for channel measurement. CRSs defined in the 3GPP LTE system can be
used for both demodulation and channel measurement. A dedicated RS
(DRS) is known only to a specific UE and the CRS is known to all
UEs. Among RSs defined in the 3GPP LTE system, the cell-specific RS
may be considered a sort of the common RS. For reference, since
demodulation is a part of a decoding process, the term demodulation
in embodiments of the present invention is used interchangeably
with decoding.
FIG. 6 illustrates configuration of cell specific reference signals
(CRSs). Especially, FIG. 6 illustrates configuration of CRSs for a
3GPP LTE system supporting a maximum of four antennas.
In an existing 3GPP system, since CRSs are used for both
demodulation and measurement, the CRSs are transmitted in all DL
subframes in a cell supporting PDSCH transmission and are
transmitted through all antenna ports configured at an eNB. A UE
may measure CSI using the CRSs and demodulate a signal received on
a PDSCH in a subframe including the CRSs. That is, the eNB
transmits the CRSs at predetermined locations in each RB of all RBs
and the UE performs channel estimation based on the CRSs and
detects the PDSCH. For example, the UE may measure a signal
received on a CRS RE and detect a PDSCH signal from an RE to which
the PDSCH is mapped using the measured signal and using the ratio
of reception energy per CRS RE to reception energy per PDSCH mapped
RE. However, when the PDSCH is transmitted based on the CRSs, since
the eNB should transmit the CRSs in all RBs, unnecessary RS
overhead occurs.
To solve such a problem, in a 3GPP LTE-A system, a UE-specific RS
(hereinafter, UE-RS) and a CSI-RS are further defined in addition
to a CRS. The UE-RS is used for demodulation and the CSI-RS is used
to derive CSI. The UE-RS is one type of a DRS. The UE-RS is
configured to be transmitted only in RB(s) to which the PDSCH is
mapped in a subframe in which the PDSCH is scheduled, unlike the
CRS which is configured to be transmitted in every subframe
regardless of whether the PDSCH is present. In addition, the UE-RS
is transmitted only over antenna port(s) corresponding respectively
to layer(s) of the PDSCH, unlike the CRS which is transmitted over
all antenna port(s) irrespective of the number of layers of the
PDSCH. Therefore, the UE-RS can reduce RS overhead relative to the
CRS. The CSI-RS is a DL RS introduced for channel measurement. In
the 3GPP LTE-A system, a plurality of CSI-RS configurations is
defined for CSI-RS transmission. In subframes in which CSI-RS
transmission is configured, CSI-RS sequence r.sub.l,n.sub.s(m) is
mapped to complex modulation symbols a.sub.k,l.sup.(p) used as RSs
on antenna port p according to the following equation.
a.sub.k,l.sup.(p)=w.sub.l''r.sub.l,n.sub.s(m') [Equation 14]
In Equation 14, w.sub.l'', k, l are given by the following
equation.
'.times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times..di-elect
cons..times..times..times..times..times..times.'''.times..times..times..t-
imes..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times-
..times..times..times.''.times..times..times..times..times..times..times..-
times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times.''.times..times..ti-
mes..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times..times.-
.times..times..times..times..times.''.di-elect cons.''.di-elect
cons..times..times..times.''.times..times..times..times..times..times..ti-
mes.'.times..times. ##EQU00005##
where (k', l') and necessary conditions on n.sub.s are given by
Table 8 and Table 9 in a normal CP and an extended CP,
respectively. That is, CSI-RS configurations of Table 8 and Table 9
denote locations of REs occupied by a CSI-RS of each antenna port
in an RB pair.
TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 8 Number of CSI reference signals configured
CSI reference signal 1 or 2 4 8 configuration (k', l') n.sub.s mod
2 (k', l') n.sub.s mod 2 (k', l') n.sub.s mod 2 FS1 and FS2 0 (9,
5) 0 (9, 5) 0 (9, 5) 0 1 (11, 2) 1 (11, 2) 1 (11, 2) 1 2 (9, 2) 1
(9, 2) 1 (9, 2) 1 3 (7, 2) 1 (7, 2) 1 (7, 2) 1 4 (9, 5) 1 (9, 5) 1
(9, 5) 1 5 (8, 5) 0 (8, 5) 0 6 (10, 2) 1 (10, 2) 1 7 (8, 2) 1 (8,
2) 1 8 (6, 2) 1 (6, 2) 1 9 (8, 5) 1 (8, 5) 1 10 (3, 5) 0 11 (2, 5)
0 12 (5, 2) 1 13 (4, 2) 1 14 (3, 2) 1 15 (2, 2) 1 16 (1, 2) 1 17
(0, 2) 1 18 (3, 5) 1 19 (2, 5) 1 FS2 only 20 (11, 1) 1 (11, 1) 1
(11, 1) 1 21 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1 22 (7, 1) 1 (7, 1) 1 (7, 1)
1 23 (10, 1) 1 (10, 1) 1 24 (8, 1) 1 (8, 1) 1 25 (6, 1) 1 (6, 1) 1
26 (5, 1) 1 27 (4, 1) 1 28 (3, 1) 1 29 (2, 1) 1 30 (1, 1) 1 31 (0,
1) 1
TABLE-US-00009 TABLE 9 CSI reference Number of CSI reference
signals configured signal 1 or 2 4 8 configuration (k', l') n.sub.s
mod 2 (k', l') n.sub.s mod 2 (k', l') n.sub.s mod 2 FS1 and FS2 0
(11, 4) 0 (11, 4) 0 (11, 4) 0 1 (9, 4) 0 (9, 4) 0 (9, 4) 0 2 (10,
4) 1 (10, 4) 1 (10, 4) 1 3 (9, 4) 1 (9, 4) 1 (9, 4) 1 4 (5, 4) 0
(5, 4) 0 5 (3, 4) 0 (3, 4) 0 6 (4, 4) 1 (4, 4) 1 7 (3, 4) 1 (3, 4)
1 8 (8, 4) 0 9 (6, 4) 0 10 (2, 4) 0 11 (0, 4) 0 12 (7, 4) 1 13 (6,
4) 1 14 (1, 4) 1 15 (0, 4) 1 FS2 16 (11, 1) 1 (11, 1) 1 (11, 1) 1
only 17 (10, 1) 1 (10, 1) 1 (10, 1) 1 18 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1 (9, 1) 1
19 (5, 1) 1 (5, 1) 1 20 (4, 1) 1 (4, 1) 1 21 (3, 1) 1 (3, 1) 1 22
(8, 1) 1 23 (7, 1) 1 24 (6, 1) 1 25 (2, 1) 1 26 (1, 1) 1 27 (0, 1)
1
FIG. 7 illustrates CSI-RS configurations. Particularly, FIG. 7(a)
illustrates 20 CSI-RS configurations 0 to 19 available for CSI-RS
transmission through two CSI-RS ports among the CSI-RS
configurations of Table 8, FIG. 7(b) illustrates 10 available
CSI-RS configurations 0 to 9 through four CSI-RS ports among the
CSI-RS configurations of Table 8, and FIG. 7(c) illustrates 5
available CSI-RS configurations 0 to 4 through 8 CSI-RS ports among
the CSI-RS configurations of Table 8. The CSI-RS ports refer to
antenna ports configured for CSI-RS transmission. For example,
referring to Equation 15, antenna ports 15 to 22 correspond to the
CSI-RS ports. Since CSI-RS configuration differs according to the
number of CSI-RS ports, if the numbers of antenna ports configured
for CSI-RS transmission differ, the same CSI-RS configuration
number may correspond to different CSI-RS configurations.
Unlike a CRS configured to be transmitted in every subframe, a
CSI-RS is configured to be transmitted at a prescribed period
corresponding to a plurality of subframes. Accordingly, CSI-RS
configurations vary not only with the locations of REs occupied by
CSI-RSs in an RB pair according to Table 8 or Table 9 but also with
subframes in which CSI-RSs are configured. That is, if subframes
for CSI-RS transmission differ even when CSI-RS configuration
numbers are the same in Table 8 or Table 9, CSI-RS configurations
also differ. For example, if CSI-RS transmission periods
(T.sub.CSI-RS) differ or if start subframes (.DELTA..sub.CSI-RS) in
which CSI-RS transmission is configured in one radio frame differ,
this may be considered as different CSI-RS configurations.
Hereinafter, in order to distinguish between a CSI-RS configuration
to which a CSI-RS configuration number of Table 8 or Table 9 is
assigned and a CSI-RS configuration varying according to a CSI-RS
configuration number of Table 8 or Table 9, the number of CSI-RS
ports, and/or a CSI-RS configured subframe, the CSI-RS
configuration of the latter will be referred to as a CSI-RS
resource configuration.
Upon informing a UE of the CSI-RS resource configuration, an eNB
may inform the UE of information about the number of antenna ports
used for transmission of CSI-RSs, a CSI-RS pattern, CSI-RS subframe
configuration I.sub.CSI-RS, UE assumption on reference PDSCH
transmitted power for CSI feedback P.sub.c, a zero-power CSI-RS
configuration list, a zero-power CSI-RS subframe configuration,
etc.
CSI-RS subframe configuration I.sub.CSI-RS is information for
specifying subframe configuration periodicity T.sub.CSI-RS and
subframe offset .DELTA..sub.CSI-RS regarding occurrence of the
CSI-RSs. The following table shows CSI-RS subframe configuration
I.sub.CSI-RS according to T.sub.CSI-RS and .DELTA..sub.CSI-RS.
TABLE-US-00010 TABLE 10 CSI-RS CSI-RS subframe CSI-RS- periodicity
T.sub.CSI-RS offset .DELTA..sub.CSI-RS SubframeConfig I.sub.CSI-RS
(subframes) (subframes) 0-4 5 I.sub.CSI-RS 5-14 10 I.sub.CSI-RS - 5
15-34 20 I.sub.CSI-RS - 15 35-74 40 I.sub.CSI-RS - 35 75-154 80
I.sub.CSI-RS - 75
Subframes satisfying the following equation are subframes including
CSI-RSs. (10n.sub.f+.left brkt-bot.n.sub.s/2.right
brkt-bot.-.DELTA..sub.CSI-RS)mod T.sub.CSI-RS=0 [Equation 16]
P.sub.c is the ratio of PDSCH EPRE to CSI-RS EPRE, assumed by the
UE when the UE derives CSI for CSI feedback. EPRE indicates energy
per RE. CSI-RS EPRE indicates energy per RE occupied by the CSI-RS
and PDSCH EPRE denotes energy per RE occupied by a PDSCH.
The zero-power CSI-RS configuration list denotes CSI-RS pattern(s)
in which the UE should assume zero transmission power. For example,
since the eNB will transmit signals at zero transmission power on
REs included in CSI-RS configurations indicated as zero
transmission power in the zero power CSI-RS configuration list, the
UE may assume signals received on the corresponding REs as
interference or decode DL signals except for the signals received
on the corresponding REs. Referring to Table 8 and Table 9, the
zero power CSI-RS configuration list may be a 16-bit bitmap
corresponding one by one to 16 CSI-RS patterns for four antenna
ports. In the 16-bit bitmap, the most significant bit corresponding
to a CSI-RS configuration of the lowest CSI-RS configuration number
(also called a CSI-RS configuration index) and subsequent bits
correspond to CSI-RS patterns in an ascending order. The UE assumes
zero transmission power with respect to REs of a CSI-RS pattern
corresponding to bit(s) set to `1` in the 16-bit zero power CSI-RS
bitmap configured by a higher layer. Hereinafter, a CSI-RS pattern
in which the UE assumes zero transmission power will be referred to
as a zero power CSI-RS pattern.
A zero power CSI-RS subframe configuration is information for
specifying subframes including the zero power CSI-RS pattern. Like
the CSI-RS subframe configuration, a subframe in which the zero
power CSI-RS occurs may be configured for the UE using I.sub.CSI-RS
according to Table 10. The UE may assume that subframes satisfying
Equation 16 include the zero power CSI-RS pattern. I.sub.CSI-RS may
be separately configured with respect to a CSI-RA pattern in which
the UE should assume non-zero transmission power and a zero power
CSI-RS pattern in which the UE should assume zero transmission
power, on REs.
The UE configured for a transmission mode (e.g. transmission mode 9
or other newly defined transmission modes) according to the 3GPP
LTE-A system may perform channel measurement using a CSI-RS and
demodulate or decode a PDSCH using a UE-RS.
FIG. 8 illustrates the structure of a UL subframe used in a
wireless communication system.
Referring to FIG. 8, a UL subframe may be divided into a data
region and a control region in the frequency domain. One or several
PUCCHs may be allocated to the control region to deliver UCI. One
or several PUSCHs may be allocated to the data region of the UE
subframe to carry user data.
In the UL subframe, subcarriers distant from a direct current (DC)
subcarrier are used as the control region. In other words,
subcarriers located at both ends of a UL transmission BW are
allocated to transmit UCI. A DC subcarrier is a component unused
for signal transmission and is mapped to a carrier frequency
f.sub.0 in a frequency up-conversion process. A PUCCH for one UE is
allocated to an RB pair belonging to resources operating on one
carrier frequency and RBs belonging to the RB pair occupy different
subcarriers in two slots. The PUCCH allocated in this way is
expressed by frequency hopping of the RB pair allocated to the
PUCCH over a slot boundary. If frequency hopping is not applied,
the RB pair occupies the same subcarriers.
The PUCCH may be used to transmit the following control
information.
Scheduling request (SR): SR is information used to request a UL-SCH
resource and is transmitted using an on-off keying (OOK)
scheme.
HARQ-ACK: HARQ-ACK is a response to a PDCCH and/or a response to a
DL data packet (e.g. a codeword) on a PDSCH. HARQ-ACK indicates
whether the PDCCH or PDSCH has been successfully received. 1-bit
HARQ-ACK is transmitted in response to a single DL codeword and
2-bit HARQ-ACK is transmitted in response to two DL codewords. A
HARQ-ACK response includes a positive ACK (simply, ACK), negative
ACK (NACK), discontinuous transmission (DTX), or NACK/DRX. HARQ-ACK
is used interchangeably with HARQ ACK/NACK and ACK/NACK.
Channel state information (CSI): CSI is feedback information for a
DL channel. CSI may include channel quality information (CQI), a
precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a precoding type indicator,
and/or a rank indicator (RI). In the CSI, MIMO-related feedback
information includes the RI and the PMI. The RI indicates the
number of streams or the number of layers that the UE can receive
through the same time-frequency resource. The PMI is a value
reflecting a space characteristic of a channel, indicating an index
of a preferred precoding matrix for DL signal transmission based on
a metric such as an SINR. The CQI is a value of channel strength,
indicating a received SINR that can be obtained by the UE generally
when the eNB uses the PMI.
FIGS. 9(a) and 9(b) are diagrams for explaining single-carrier
communication and multi-carrier communication. Specially, FIG. 9(a)
illustrates a subframe structure of a single carrier and FIG. 9(b)
illustrates a subframe structure of multiple carriers.
Referring to FIG. 9(a), a general wireless communication system
transmits/receives data through one downlink (DL) band and through
one uplink (UL) band corresponding to the DL band (in the case of
frequency division duplex (FDD) mode), or divides a prescribed
radio frame into a UL time unit and a DL time unit in the time
domain and transmits/receives data through the UL/DL time unit (in
the case of time division duplex (TDD) mode). Recently, to use a
wider frequency band in recent wireless communication systems,
introduction of carrier aggregation (or BW aggregation) technology
that uses a wider UL/DL BW by aggregating a plurality of UL/DL
frequency blocks has been discussed. A carrier aggregation (CA) is
different from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
system in that DL or UL communication is performed using a
plurality of carrier frequencies, whereas the OFDM system carries a
base frequency band divided into a plurality of orthogonal
subcarriers on a single carrier frequency to perform DL or UL
communication. Hereinbelow, each of carriers aggregated by carrier
aggregation will be referred to as a component carrier (CC).
Referring to FIG. 9(b), three 20 MHz CCs in each of UL and DL are
aggregated to support a BW of 60 MHz. The CCs may be contiguous or
non-contiguous in the frequency domain. Although FIG. 9(b)
illustrates that a BW of UL CC and a BW of DL CC are the same and
are symmetrical, a BW of each component carrier may be defined
independently. In addition, asymmetric carrier aggregation where
the number of UL CCs is different from the number of DL CCs may be
configured. A DL/UL CC for a specific UE may be referred to as a
serving UL/DL CC configured at the specific UE.
In the meantime, the 3GPP LTE-A system uses a concept of cell to
manage radio resources. The "cell" associated with the radio
resources is defined by combination of DL resources and UL
resources, that is, combination of DL CC and UL CC. The cell may be
configured by DL resources only, or may be configured by DL
resources and UL resources. If carrier aggregation is supported,
linkage between a carrier frequency of the DL resources (or DL CC)
and a carrier frequency of the UL resources (or UL CC) may be
indicated by system information. For example, combination of the DL
resources and the UL resources may be indicated by linkage of
system information block type 2 (SIB2). In this case, the carrier
frequency means a center frequency of each cell or CC. A cell
operating on a primary frequency may be referred to as a primary
cell (Pcell) or PCC, and a cell operating on a secondary frequency
may be referred to as a secondary cell (Scell) or SCC. The carrier
corresponding to the Pcell on DL will be referred to as a DL
primary CC (DL PCC), and the carrier corresponding to the Pcell on
UL will be referred to as a UL primary CC (UL PCC). A Scell means a
cell that may be configured after completion of radio resource
control (RRC) connection establishment and used to provide
additional radio resources. The Scell may form a set of serving
cells for the UE together with the Pcell in accordance with
capabilities of the UE. The carrier corresponding to the Scell on
the DL will be referred to as DL secondary CC (DL SCC), and the
carrier corresponding to the Scell on the UL will be referred to as
UL secondary CC (UL SCC). Although the UE is in RRC-CONNECTED
state, if it is not configured by carrier aggregation or does not
support carrier aggregation, a single serving cell configured by
the Pcell only exists.
The eNB may activate all or some of the serving cells configured in
the UE or deactivate some of the serving cells for communication
with the UE. The eNB may change the activated/deactivated cell, and
may change the number of cells which is/are activated or
deactivated. If the eNB allocates available cells to the UE
cell-specifically or UE-specifically, at least one of the allocated
cells is not deactivated unless cell allocation to the UE is fully
reconfigured or unless the UE performs handover. Such a cell which
is not deactivated unless CC allocation to the UE is fully
reconfigured will be referred to as Pcell, and a cell which may be
activated/deactivated freely by the eNB will be referred to as
Scell. The Pcell and the Scell may be discriminated from each other
on the basis of the control information. For example, specific
control information may be set to be transmitted and received
through a specific cell only. This specific cell may be referred to
as the Pcell, and the other cell(s) may be referred to as
Scell(s).
FIG. 10 illustrates the state of cells in a system supporting
carrier aggregation.
In FIG. 10, a configured cell refers to a cell in which carrier
aggregation is performed for a UE based on measurement report from
another eNB or UE among cells of an eNB and is configured per UE.
The cell configured for the UE may be a serving cell in terms of
the UE. For the cell configured for the UE, i.e. the serving cell,
resources for ACK/NACK transmission for PDSCH transmission are
reserved in advance. An activated cell refers to a cell configured
to be actually used for PDSCH/PUSCH transmission among cells
configured for the UE and CSI reporting and SRS transmission for
PDSCH/PUSCH transmission are performed in the activated cell. A
deactivated cell refers to a cell configured not to be used for
PDSCH/PUSCH transmission by the command of an eNB or the operation
of a timer and, if a cell is deactivated, CSI reporting and SRS
transmission are also stopped in the cell. For reference, in FIG.
10, CI denotes the above-described serving cell index and CI=0 is
applied to Pcell.
In the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system, there are two transmission schemes:
open-loop MIMO operated without feedback of channel information and
closed-loop MIMO using feedback of the channel information. In
closed-loop MIMO, each of a transmitter and a receiver performs
beamforming based on the channel information, i.e. CSI, to obtain a
multiplexing gain of MIMO antennas. To report the CSI, time and
frequency resources which can be used by the UE are controlled by
then eNB. For example, the eNB commands the UE to feed back DL CSI
by allocating a PUCCH or a PUSCH to the UE in order to obtain the
DL CSI.
A CSI report is periodically or aperiodically configured. A
periodic CSI report is transmitted by the UE on the PUCCH except
for a special case (e.g. when the UE is not configured for
simultaneous PUSCH and PUCCH transmission and when a PUCCH
transmission timing collides with a subframe with PUSCH
allocation). In the CSI, since an RI is dominantly determined by
long-term fading, the RI is typically fed back to the UE from the
eNB at a cycle longer than that of a PMI and CQI. In contrast, an
aperiodic CSI report is transmitted on the PUSCH. The aperiodic CSI
report is triggered by a CSI request field included in the DCI
(e.g. DCI of DCI format 0 or 4) for scheduling of UL data
(hereinafter, UL DCI format). The UE, which has decoded the UL DCI
format or a random access response grant for a specific serving
cell (hereinafter, serving cell c) in subframe n, performs
aperiodic CSI reporting using the PUSCH in subframe n+k in serving
cell c when the CSI request field is set to trigger the CSI report
and when the CSI request field is not reserved. The PUSCH
corresponds to a PUSCH transmitted in subframe n+k according to the
UL DCI format decoded in subframe n. In the case of FDD, k=4. In
the case of TDD, k is given by the following table.
TABLE-US-00011 TABLE 11 TDD UL/DL subframe number n Configuration 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 4 6 4 6 1 6 4 6 4 2 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 6 7 7
7 7 5
For example, when a UE for which a TDD UL/DL configuration is 6
detects a UL DCI format for serving cell c in subframe 9, the UE
performs aperiodic CSI reporting triggered by a CSI request field
in the detected UL DCI format on the PUSCH of serving cell c in
subframe 9+5, i.e. in subframe 4 of a radio frame following a radio
frame including subframe 9 in which the UL DCI format is
detected.
Currently, the CSI request field is 1 bit or 2 bits in length. If
the CSI request field is 1 bit, the CSI request field set to `1`
triggers the aperiodic CSI report for serving cell c. If the CSI
request field is 2 bits, the aperiodic CSI report corresponding to
the following table is triggered. That is, the following table
shows the CSI request field with the UL DCI format.
TABLE-US-00012 TABLE 12 Value of CSI request field Description `00`
No aperiodic CSI report is triggered `01` Aperiodic CSI report is
triggered for serving cell c `10` Aperiodic CSI report is triggered
for a 1.sup.st set of serving cells configured by higher layers
`11` Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a 2.sup.nd set of
serving cells configured by higher layers
Recently, application of CoMP technology to the LTE/LTE-A system
has been considered. CoMP technology involves a plurality of nodes.
If CoMP technology is introduced to the LTE/LTE-A system, a new
transmission mode may be defined in association with CoMP
technology. There are various CSI-RS configurations received by the
UE according to a scheme in which the nodes participate in
communication. Due to this, whereas a maximum of one CSI-RS
configuration or one CSI-RS resource configuration in which the UE
should assume non zero transmission power for a CSI-RS can be used
in a conventional LTE system, a maximum number of CSI resource
configurations available for the UE is one or more in the case of a
CoMP configured UE, i.e. a UE configured in a CoMP mode. When the
UE is configured in a mode in which one or more CSI-RS resource
configurations can be configured, that is, when the UE is
configured in a CoMP mode, the UE may receive a higher layer signal
including information about one or more CSI-RS resource
configurations. If carrier aggregation (hereinafter, CA) as well as
CoMP is configured for the UE, one or more CSI-RS resource
configurations per serving cell can be used.
Meanwhile, in a conventional LTE/LTE-A system, the UE has
transmitted/received signals to/from one node in a specific serving
cell. In more detail, in the conventional LTE/LTE-A system, since
only one radio link is present in one serving cell, only one CSI
could be calculated by the UE with respect to one serving cell.
However, in CoMP involving a plurality of nodes, DL channel states
may differ per node or per combination of nodes. Since CSI-RS
resource configurations may differ according to a node or
combination of nodes, CSI is associated with a CSI-RS resource. In
addition, channel states may vary with an interference environment
between nodes participating in CoMP. In other words, if CoMP is
configured, a channel state per node or per combination of nodes
may be measured by the UE and, since CSI may be present in each
interference environment, a maximum number of CSIs which can be
calculated per serving cell of the UE may be an integer greater
than one. In order for the UE to derive the CSI, which CSI should
be reported by the UE and how the UE should reports the CSI may be
configured by higher layers. If CoMP is configured, a plurality of
CSIs as well as one CSI can be calculated by the UE. Accordingly,
when a CoMP mode is configured for the UE, a CSI report for one or
more CSIs per serving cell of the UE may be configured for periodic
or aperiodic CSI reporting.
As mentioned previously, in CoMP, the CSI is associated with a
CSI-RS resource used for channel measurement and a resource used
for interference measurement (hereinafter, an interference
measurement (IM) resource). Hereinafter, association of a CSI-RS
resource for signal measurement and an IM resource for interference
measurement will be referred to as a CSI process. That is, the CSI
process may be associated with a CSI-RS resource and a IM resource
(IMR).
It is preferable that an eNB to which a UE is connected or an eNB
for managing a node of a cell in which the UE is located
(hereinafter, a serving eNB) transmit no signals on an IMR.
Accordingly, the IMR may be configured for the UE by the same
scheme as in a zero-power CSI-RS. For example, the eNB may inform
the UE of REs used by the UE for interference measurement using the
16-bit bitmap indicating the above-described zero power CSI-RS
pattern and using the CSI-RS subframe configuration. In this way,
if the IMR is explicitly configured for the UE, the UE measures
interference on the IMR and calculates CSI under the assumption
that the measured interference is interference on a CSI reference
resource which is reference for CSI measurement. More specifically,
the UE may perform channel measurement based on a CSI-RS or a CRS,
perform interference measurement based on the IMR, and derive the
CSI based on channel measurement and interference measurement.
Accordingly, a CSI reported by the UE may correspond to a CSI
process. Each CSI process may have an independent CSI feedback
configuration. The independent feedback configuration refers to a
feedback mode, a feedback period, a feedback offset, etc. The
feedback offset corresponds to a start subframe with feedback among
subframes in a radio frame. The feedback mode is differently
defined according to whether CQI included in feedback CSI among an
RI, CQI, a PMI, and a TPMI is CQI for a wideband, CQI for a
subband, or CQI for a subband selected by the UE, whether the CSI
includes the PMI, and whether the CSI includes a single PMI or a
plurality of PMIs.
FIGS. 11(a), 11(b), 11(c), and 11(d) illustrate links configurable
according to carrier aggregation and a CoMP environment. In FIG.
11, f1, f2, f3, and f4 correspond to carrier frequencies in which a
cell operates when eNB1 and/or eNB 2 communicate with a UE.
As illustrated in FIG. 11(a), if a UE has a single serving cell, an
eNB transmits a 1-bit CSI request field to the UE through DCI
format 0 or 4 (hereinafter, DCI format 0/4). As illustrated in FIG.
11(b), if the UE has multiple serving cells in a CA environment,
the eNB transmits a 2-bit CSI request field according to Table 12
to the UE through DCI format 0/4. Hence, if the UE has only one
serving cell, the CSI request field of DCI format 0/4 may be
interpreted as one bit and, if the UE has multiple serving cells in
the CA environment, the CSI request field of DCI format 0/4 may be
interpreted as 2 bits. That is, if a CoMP mode is not configured,
the aperiodic CSI report may be triggered using the 1-bit or 2-bit
CSI request field according to whether CA is configured as
described above.
However, in a CoMP environment, a plurality of CSIs per serving
cell, i.e. a plurality of CSI processes, may be configured as
described previously. In a transmission mode in which one or plural
CSIs can be configurable for serving cell c (i.e. a CoMP mode), a
method for triggering the aperiodic CSI report is problematic.
As illustrated in FIG. 11(c), if the UE has a single cell, i.e. if
only one serving cell is configured for the UE, and if multiple
CSIs for CoMP are configured in the cell, or although not shown, if
the UE has a single cell and multiple CSIs for CoMP, i.e. multiple
CSI processes, are configured for the cell, it is necessary to
determine how to use the CSI request field and how to interpret the
CSI request field.
As illustrated in FIG. 11(d), if the UE has multiple serving cells
in the CA environment and if multiple CSIs for CoMP, i.e. multiple
processes, are configured for some or all serving cells, it is
necessary to determine how to use the CSI request field and how to
interpret the CSI request field. For convenience, in the present
invention, an environment in which the UE has multiple serving
cells in the CA environment and multiple CSIs for CoMP, i.e.
multiple CSI processes are configured for some or all serving cells
will be referred to as a CA+CoMP environment. That is, if the UE is
configured by a plurality of serving cells and the UE is configured
for a transmission mode in which one or more CSI processes can be
configured with respect to at least one of the plurality of serving
cells, the UE is considered to be in the CA+CoMP environment. In
addition, a serving cell used for both CoMP and CA in the CA+CoMP
environment is referred to as a CoMP cell and a cell used only for
CA and not used for CoMP is referred to as a non-CoMP cell.
Hereinafter, methods for configuring and interpreting the CSI
request field in the CA+CoMP environment will be proposed. For
convenience of description, although embodiments of the present
invention will be described by way of example when CA+CoMP is
configured, the embodiments of the present invention are
identically applicable when only CoMP is configured without
configuring CA. That is, the embodiments of the present invention
may be applied to a UE configured in a CoMP mode.
A. Contents of CSI Request Field
Embodiment A of the present invention proposes a CSI request field
in a CA+CoMP environment. The CSI request field may consist of two
or more bits. The present invention proposes that CSI request(s)
for all or some of the following be used in the CSI request field.
Here, it is assumed that aperiodic CSI is reported by a PUSCH of
serving cell c as described in association with Table 11 and Table
12.
"No aperiodic CSI report is triggered"
"periodic CSI report is triggered for all CSI processes for serving
cell c"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a CSI processes for serving
cell c"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for
serving cell c"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSIs for Pcell"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for all CSI processes for
Pcell"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for a
serving cell configured by higher layers"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for a
set of serving cells configured by higher layers"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for
all serving cells"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for the first CSI-RS (or CSI-RS
resource+IM resource) set for Pcell"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for the first CSI-RS (or CSI-RS
resource+IM resource) set for a serving cell configured by higher
layers"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for the first CSI-RS (or CSI-RS
resource+IM resource) set for a set of serving cells configured by
higher layers"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for the first CSI-RS (or CSI-RS
resource+IM resource) set for all serving cells configured by
higher layers"
"Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for
serving cell c" means that some or all CSI process(es) configured
by higher layers (e.g. RRC) are reported among CSI process(es) of
serving cell c. If a UE is configured in a CoMP mode, one or more
CSI processes may be configured for serving cell c. Upon receiving
the CSI request field set to a value corresponding to "Aperiodic
CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for serving cell
c", the UE performs an aperiodic CSI reporting about a set of CSI
process(es) configured by higher layers (e.g. RRC) among the CSI
process(es) configured for serving cell c. In addition, "Aperiodic
CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI processes for a set of
serving cells configured by higher layers` means that some or all
CSI process(es) configured by the higher layers are reported among
all CSI processes of a set of serving cells configured by the
higher layers (e.g. RRC).
CSI(s), which are configured by the higher layers and triggered by
the CSI request field set to indicate one of the above descriptions
so as to be fed back, may differ according to serving cell c to
which a PUSCH carrying the aperiodic CSI report is allocated.
The present invention proposes Table 13 and Table 14 as examples of
values which can be set in the CSI request field in the CA+CoMP
environment.
TABLE-US-00013 TABLE 13 CSI request field for PDCCH with uplink DCI
format in UE specific search space Value of CSI request field
Description `00` No aperiodic CSI report is triggered `01`
Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a 1.sup.st set of CSI
processes of serving cell c by higher layers `10` Aperiodic CSI
report is triggered for a 2.sup.nd set of CSI processes for a
2.sup.nd set of serving cells configured by higher layers `11`
Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a 3.sup.rd set of CSI
processes for a 3.sup.rd set of serving cells configured by higher
layers
TABLE-US-00014 TABLE 14 CSI request field for PDCCH with uplink DCI
format in UE specific search space Value of CSI request field
Description `00` No aperiodic CSI report is triggered `01`
Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for all CSI processes of serving
cell c by higher layers `10` Aperiodic CSI report is triggered for
a 2.sup.nd set of CSI processes for a 2.sup.nd set of serving cells
configured by higher layers `11` Aperiodic CSI report is triggered
for a 3.sup.rd set of CSI processes for a 3.sup.rd set of serving
cells configured by higher layers
Upon receiving UL DCI for a specific serving cell in subframe n,
that is, upon receiving a UL DCI format in which a CIF is set to a
serving cell index of the specific cell, a UE in the CA+CoMP
environment may transmit the aperiodic CSI report triggered by the
CSI request field on a PUSCH of the specific serving cell in
subframe n+k according to Table 13 or Table 14. Referring to Table
13, for example, when the UE receives the CSI request field set to
`00` in the CA+CoMP environment, the UE performs no aperiodic CSI
reporting on the PUSCH of the specific serving cell. As another
example, when the UE receives the CSI request field set to `01` in
the CA+CoMP environment, the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for
a set of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layers among CSI
process(es) of the specific serving cell and the UE performs an
aperiodic CSI report for a set of CSI process(es) on the PUSCH of
the specific serving cell. The aperiodic CSI report may include
CSI(s) about the CSI process(es). As still another example, when
the UE receives the CSI request field set to `10` in the CA+CoMP
environment, the aperiodic CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI
process(es) among all CSI process(es) for a set of serving cell(s)
configured by the higher layers. When the UE receives the CSI
request field set to `11` in the CA+CoMP environment, the aperiodic
CSI report is triggered for a set of CSI process(es) among all CSI
process(es) for another set of serving cell(s) configured by the
higher layers.
In accordance with Embodiment A of the present invention, CSI
request bits may be formed by the same number of bit(s) as bits of
a conventional CSI request field even in the CoMP environment.
B. Composition of CSI Request Field
Upon transmission of DCI format 0/4 to the UE through a UE SS in a
CA+CoMP and/or CoMP environment, an eNB may use two or more bits
for the CSI request field. Therefore, the CSI request field in the
CA+CoMP environment and/or the CoMP environment may be configured
in many ways. For example, the CSI request field may be configured
according to any one of the following schemes.
When the CSI request field is used in the CA+CoMP and/or CoMP
environment, one of the bits of the CSI request field may be used
for CoMP/CA indication. The bit indicates whether the other bit(s)
of the CSI request field are interpreted as the CSI request field
for the CoMP environment or as the CSI request field for the CA
environment. Accordingly, upon interpreting the CSI request field
of received DCI format 0/4, the UE determines, through one specific
bit of the CSI request field, whether the other bit(s) of the CSI
request field are interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or
the CSI request field for CA. For example, if the specific bit of
the CSI request field is set to `0`, the UE may determine for which
serving cell the aperiodic CSI report is triggered, based on the
other bit(s) of the CSI request field by the scheme described with
reference to Table 11 and Table 12. In contrast, if the specific
bit of the CSI request field is set to `1`, the UE may determine
for which CSI processes the aperiodic CSI report is triggered,
based on the other bit(s) of the CSI request field by the scheme
described in Embodiment A of the present invention.
When the CSI request field is used in the CA+CoMP and/or CoMP
environment, partial value(s) of the CSI request field may be fixed
to indicate a specific aperiodic CSI report and the other value(s)
of the CSI request field may be used to indicate a set of CSI(s),
i.e. a set of CSI process(es), configured by the higher layers
(e.g. RRC). The set of CSI(s) may be composed of combination of CSI
of each non-CoMP cell and multiple CSIs of each CoMP cell. For
example, if the value of a 3-bit CSI request field is 000, this
means that no aperiodic CSI report is triggered and the other
values of the CSI request field may indicate a set of CSI(s)
configured by the higher layers. As another example, if the value
of the CSI request field is 000, this may indicate that no
aperiodic CSI report is triggered, if the value of the CSI request
field is 001, this may indicate that the aperiodic CSI report is
triggered for a cell used for aperiodic CSI PUSCH transmission, and
the other value(s) of the CSI request field may indicate that a set
of CSI(s) configured by the higher layers (e.g. RRC) is
triggered.
When the CSI request field is used in the CA+CoMP and/or CoMP
environment, the CSI request field may be set according to any one
of descriptions proposed in Embodiment A of the present invention.
Namely, in Embodiment B of the present invention, the CSI request
field for CoMP may be provided according to Embodiment A of the
present invention. In Embodiment B of the present invention, the
CSI request field used in CA may be provided according to a
description associated with Table 11 and Table 12. For instance, if
the CSI request field for CA consists of one bit, the CSI request
field set to `1` triggers the aperiodic CSI report for serving cell
c. If the CSI request field used in CA consists of two bits, the
aperiodic CSI report corresponding to the values of Table 12 is
triggered.
C. Independent Configuration of a Set of CSI(s) in Each Cell or
Cell Group
Embodiment C of the present invention proposes that serving cells
in the CoMP+CA environment be divided into multiple groups and RRC
configuration for a CSI set be independently performed in each
group. Alternatively, Embodiment C of the present invention
proposes that RRC configuration for a CSI set be independently
performed in each serving cell in the CoMP+CA environment. That is,
in Embodiment C of the present invention, serving cells
transmitting aperiodic CSI PUSCHs in the CoMP+CA environment, i.e.
serving cells to which PUSCHs carrying aperiodic CSIs are allocated
may be divided into multiple groups and set(s) of CSIs which can be
triggered by the CSI request field, i.e. CSI set(s), may be
independently configured per serving cell group. It may be
interpreted that the same CSI request field value may trigger
different CSI sets according to a serving cell group including a
serving cell to which a PUSCH carrying the aperiodic CSI report
triggered by the CSI request field is mapped. Alternatively, in
Embodiment C of the present invention, CSI set(s) which can be
triggered by the CSI request field may be independently configured
per serving cell.
The CSI request field of each cell or cell group includes values
indicating the aperiodic CSI report for CSI sets configured by RRC.
Referring to Table 10, sets of serving cells configured by RRC in
conventional CA are the same for all serving cells irrespective of
which serving cell transmits the aperiodic CSI PUSCH, that is,
which serving cell is a cell to which the PUSCH carrying the
aperiodic CSI report is mapped. However, according to Embodiment C
of the present invention, CSI sets configured by RRC for the CSI
request field are the same when the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is
triggered for serving cells belonging to the same group but are not
always the same for serving cell(s) belonging to different groups
when the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for serving cell(s)
belonging to different groups. Alternatively, since CSI set(s) for
the CSI request field are independently configured with respect to
each serving cell, it cannot be interpreted that the CSI field
always triggers report on the same CSI set when serving cells
carrying the aperiodic CSI PUSCH are different although the values
of the CSI request field are the same in a situation in which
serving cells are different.
For example, when four serving cells are present, if cell 1 and
cell 2 belong to group 1 and if cell 3 and cell 4 belong to group
2, two RRC configured CSI sets may be {CSI 1, CSI 1+CSI 2} for the
case in which the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for group 1,
i.e. for the case in which aperiodic CSI reporting is performed on
a PUSCH of a serving cell belonging to group 1, and two RRC
configured CSI sets for the case the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is
triggered for group 2 may be {CSI 1+CSI 3, CSI 1+CSI 2+CSI 3}. In
this case, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for cell 1 or
cell 2, a CSI set indicated by the CSI request field may be
interpreted as one of {CSI 1, CSI 1+CSI 2} and, if the aperiodic
CSI PUSCH is triggered for cell 3 or cell 4, a CSI set indicated by
the CSI request field may be interpreted as one of {CSI 1+CSI 3,
CSI 1+CSI 2+CSI 3}.
In Embodiment C of the present invention, a CoMP configured UE may
interpret the CSI request field according to Embodiment A of the
present invention.
D. Use of Different CSI Request Fields for CoMP Cell and Non-CoMP
Cell
Embodiment D of the present invention proposes that, if the
aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for a CoMP cell, i.e. if aperiodic
CSI reporting should be performed on a PUSCH of the CoMP cell, the
CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP
and, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for a non-CoMP cell,
the CSI request field be interpreted as the CSI request field for
CA. According to Embodiment D of the present invention, for
example, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for cell f1 in
FIG. 11(d), i.e. if aperiodic CSI PUSCH is allocated to cell f1,
the UE interprets the CSI request field as the CSI request field
for CoMP but, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for cells f2,
f3, and f4, the UE interprets the CSI request field as the CSI
request field for CA.
FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present
invention.
Alternatively, as a method for setting the CSI request field in the
CA+CoMP environment, Embodiment D of the present invention proposes
that, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for a CoMP cell, the
CSI request field be interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP
in the CoMP cell and, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for a
non -CoMP cell, the CSI request field be interpreted as the CSI
request field for CA. Referring to FIG. 12, when one or more cells
performing CoMP are present, that is, when one or more cells
configured for a CoMP mode are present as illustrated in FIG. 12,
the present invention proposes that, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is
triggered for cell f1, the CSI request field be interpreted as the
CSI request field for CoMP by considering only a CoMP environment
of cell f1, if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for cell f2,
the CSI request field should be interpreted as the CSI request
field for CoMP by considering only a CoMP environment of cell f2,
and if the aperiodic CSI PUSCH is triggered for cell f3, the CSI
request field should be interpreted as the CSI request field for
CA.
In embodiment D of the present invention, the CSI request field for
CoMP may be provided according to Embodiment A of the present
invention. In embodiment D of the present invention, the CSI
request field for CA may be given according to a description
associated with Table 11 and Table 12.
E. Use of Subframe Location
Embodiment E of the present invention proposes that the CSI request
field in the CA+CoMP environment be properly used according to a
CoMP environment or a CA environment and whether the CSI request
field will be interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or the
CSI request field for CA differ according to the location of a
subframe.
For example, in accordance with Embodiment E of the present
invention, if a subframe in which a CSI request is transmitted is
an odd-numbered (or even-numbered) subframe, the UE may interpret
the CSI request as the CSI request field for CoMP and, if the
subframe in which the CSI request is transmitted is an
even-numbered (or odd-numbered) subframe, the UE may interpret the
CSI request as the CSI request field for CA. As another example, if
the CSI request is transmitted in subframes 0 to 4 (or subframes 5
to 9) among 10 subframes 0 to 9 in a radio frame, the UE may
interpret the CSI request as the CSI request field for CoMP and, if
the CSI request is transmitted in subframes 5 to 9 (or subframes 0
to 4), the UE may interpret the CSI request as the CSI request
field for CA.
In Embodiment E of the present invention, the CSI request field for
CoMP may be given according to Embodiment A of the present
invention. In Embodiment E of the present invention, the CSI
request field for CA may be given according to a description
associated with Table 11 and Table 12.
F. Use of Another Field in DCI Format 0/4
Embodiment F of the present invention proposes that the CSI request
field in the CA+CoMP environment be properly used according to a
CoMP environment or a CA environment and the UE be informed of
whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request
field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA using another field
in DCI format 0/4. DCI format 0 is used for scheduling of a PUSCH
in one UL cell and DCI format 4 is used for scheduling the PUSCH in
one UL cell for a multi-antenna port transmission mode. Table 15
and Table 16 shows DCI which can be transmitted by DCI format 0 and
DCI format 4, respectively.
TABLE-US-00015 TABLE 15 Field Number of bits Carrier indicator
(CIF) 1 or 3 Flag for format 0/format 1A 1 differentiation (0/1A)
Frequency hopping flag (FH) 1 Hopping resource allocation
N.sub.UL.sub.--.sub.hop (N.sub.UL.sub.--.sub.hop) Resource block
assignment .left brkt-top.log.sub.2(N.sub.RB.sup.UL(N.sub.RB.sup.UL
+ 1)/2).right brkt-bot. - N.sub.UL.sub.--.sub.hop (RA) Modulation
and coding 5 scheme and redundancy version (MCS & RV) New data
indicator (NDI) 1 TPC command for scheduled 2 PUSCH (TPC) Cyclic
shift for DM RS and 3 OCC index (DM RS CS) CSI request (CSI
request) 1 or 2 SRS request (SRS) 0 or 1 Resource allocation type 0
or 1 (RAT)
TABLE-US-00016 TABLE 16 Field Number of bits Carrier indicator
(CIF) 1 or 3 Resource block assignment (RA)
.function..function..function..function. ##EQU00006## TPC command
for scheduled PUSCH 2 (TPC) Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index 3
(DM RS CS) CSI request (CSI request) 1 or 2 SRS request (SRS) 2
Resource allocation type (RAT) 1 Modulation and coding scheme and 5
redundancy version for transport block 1 (MCS & RV 1) New data
indicator for transport block 1 1 (NDI1) Modulation and coding
scheme and 5 redundancy version for transport block 2 (MCS & RV
2) New data indicator for transport block 2 1 (NDI2) Precoding
information and number of 3 or 6 layers (Precoding information)
A bit of any one of the following fields may be used to indicate
whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request
field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA.
"Cyclic Shift for DM RS and OCC Index Field"
A bit of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field among fields
in DCI format 0/4 may be used to indicate whether the CSI request
field is interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or the CSI
request field for CA.
When the aperiodic CSI report is requested by the UE in the CoMP+CA
environment, the eNB transmits the CSI request to the UE and
simultaneously informs the UE of whether the CSI request field is
interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or the CSI request
field for CA using one bit of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC
index" field. If the aperiodic CSI report is requested through the
CSI request field in the CoMP+CA environment, the UE determines
whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request
field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA using one determined
bit of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field in DCI
including the CSI request field.
As another method using "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index"
field of DCI format 0/4 in order to inform the UE of whether the
CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP
or the CSI request field for CA, a method is proposed for
determining whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI
request field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA according to
values of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field of 3 bits.
For example, the values of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index"
field are as follows.
TABLE-US-00017 TABLE 17 Cyslic Shift Field in
n.sub.DMRS,.lamda..sup.(2) [w.sup.(.lamda.)(0) w.sup.(.lamda.)(1)]
uplink-related DCI format .lamda. = 0 .lamda. = 1 .lamda. = 2
.lamda. = 3 .lamda. = 0 .lamda. = 1 .lamda. = 2 .lamda. = 3 000 0 6
3 9 [1 1] [1 1] [1 -1] [1 -1] 001 6 0 9 3 [1 -1] [1 -1] [1 1] [1 1]
010 3 9 6 0 [1 -1] [1 -1] [1 1] [1 1] 011 4 10 7 1 [1 1] [1 1] [1
1] [1 1] 100 2 8 5 11 [1 1] [1 1] [1 1] [1 1] 101 8 2 11 5 [1 -1]
[1 -1] [1 -1] [1 -1] 110 10 4 1 7 [1 -1] [1 -1] [1 -1] [1 -1] 111 9
3 0 6 [1 1] [1 1] [1 -1] [1 -1]
Referring to Table 17, if the value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and
OCC index" field is one of four values among 8 values 000 to 111
taken in "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field, the UE may
interpret the CSI request field as the CSI request field for CoMP
and, if the value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field
is one of the other four values, the UE may interpret the CSI
request field as the CSI request field for CA. For example, if the
value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field is one of
{000, 001, 010, and 011}, the UE may interpret the CSI request
field as the CSI request field for CoMP and if "Cyclic shift for DM
RS and OCC index" field has one of values {100, 101, 110, and 111},
the UE may interpret the CSI request field as the CSI request field
for CA.
"Resource Block Assignment and Hopping Resource Allocation
Field/Resource Block Assignment Field"
A bit of "Resource block assignment and hopping resource
allocation" field of DCI format 0 and/or a bit of "Resource block
assignment" field of DCI format 4 may be used as a bit for
indicating whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI
request field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA. When the
aperiodic CSI report is requested by the UE in the CoMP+CA
environment, the eNB transmits the CSI request to the UE and
simultaneously informs the UE of whether the CSI request field is
interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or the CSI request
field for CA using one bit of "Resource block assignment and
hopping resource allocation/Resource block assignment" field. If
the aperiodic CSI report is requested through the CSI request field
in the CoMP+CA environment, the UE determines whether the CSI
request field is interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or
the CSI request field for CA using one determined bit of "Resource
block assignment and hopping resource allocation field/Resource
block assignment" field in DCI including the CSI request field.
Resource Allocation Type Field
A bit of "Resource allocation type" field may be used as a bit for
indicating whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI
request field for CoMP or the CSI request field for CA. When the
aperiodic CSI report is requested by the UE in the CoMP+CA
environment, the eNB transmits the CSI request to the UE and
simultaneously informs the UE of whether the CSI request field is
interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or the CSI request
field for CA using the bit of "Resource allocation type" field. If
the aperiodic CSI report is requested through the CSI request field
in the CoMP+CA environment, the UE determines whether the CSI
request field is interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP or
the CSI request field for CA using the bit of "Resource allocation
type" field in the DCI including CSI request field. If the bit of
"Resource allocation type" field is used to indicate whether the
CSI request field is interpreted as the DCI request field for CoMP
or the DCI request field for CA, a resource allocation type of a
PUSCH may be a prescheduled default mode or an RRC configured mode.
Alternatively, a resource allocation type used in previous PUSCH
transmission may be used as the resource allocation type of the
PUSCH carrying the aperiodic CSI report triggered by the CSI
request field.
Embodiment F of the present invention proposes that bit(s) of
another field in DCI format 0/4 be used in order to determine
whether a 2-bit CSI request field is interpreted as the CSI request
field for CoMP of a specific cell or the CSI request field for CA
when one or more cells performing CoMP are present as illustrated
in FIG. 12. Especially, Embodiment F of the present invention
proposes that whether the CSI request field is interpreted as the
CSI request field for CoMP of the specific cell or the CSI request
field for CA be determined using "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC
index" field. The UE determines whether the CSI request field is
interpreted as the CSI request field for CoMP of the specific cell
or the CSI request field for CA according to values of "Cyclic
shift for DM RS and OCC index" field of 3 bits.
For instance, when two or more cells performing CoMP are present as
illustrated in FIG. 12, 8 values 000 to 111 of "Cyclic shift for DM
RS and OCC index" field are divided into 3 sets. If the actual
value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field is one of
value(s) belonging to the first set, the UE may interpret the CSI
request field as the CSI request field considering only the CoMP
environment of cell f1, if the actual value of "Cyclic shift for DM
RS and OCC index" field is one of value(s) belonging to the second
set, the UE may interpret the CSI request field as the CSI request
field considering only the CoMP environment of cell f2, that is, as
the CSI request field for CoMP, and if the actual value of "Cyclic
shift for DM RS and OCC index" field is one of value(s) belonging
to the third set, the UE may interpret the CSI request field as the
CSI request field considering only the CA environment, that is, as
the CSI request field for CA.
This may be extended as follows. 8 values 000 to 111 which can
exist in "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field are divided
into `N+1` sets when CoMP is performed in the first cell to N-th
cell. If the value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and OCC index" field
is one of values belonging to the n-th (1.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.N) set,
the UE may interpret the CSI request field as the CSI request field
considering only the CoMP environment of the n-th cell in which
CoMP is configured and, if the value of "Cyclic shift for DM RS and
OCC index" field is one of values belonging to the `N+1`-th set,
the UE may interpret the CSI request field as the CSI request field
considering only the CA environment.
Embodiment F of the present invention may be limitedly applied only
to the case in which the CSI request field does not indicate no CSI
report and/or aperiodic CSI report on a cell carrying the aperiodic
CSI PUSCH.
G. CSI Feedback for Unavailable CSI Request
Embodiment G of the present invention proposes UE operation when
aperiodic CSI feedback for CSI not included in a specific cell,
i.e. an aperiodic CSI report, is requested to be transmitted
through a PUSCH of serving cell c.
If CSI feedback for a set of CoMP CSIs for serving cell a, i.e. CSI
feedback for a set of CSI process(es) for serving cell a is
requested to be transmitted through the PUSCH of serving cell c,
the case in which feedback cannot be performed may occur because
CSI for all or some of the set of CoMP CSIs for serving cell a are
not valid. In this case, the UE may not perform CSI feedback for
all of the requested set of CoMP CSIs or may not perform feedback
for only some invalid CSI(s). Alternatively, the UE may perform
aperiodic CSI reporting (e.g. aperiodic CSI corresponding to `01`
of Table 11) of serving cell a based on a transmission mode in
which CoMP is not performed, i.e. transmission mode 9. The UE may
feed back all CoMP CSIs of serving cell a irrespective of whether
CoMP CSIs are valid. The UE may also feed back specific CSI
configured by higher layers. Alternatively, the UE may feed back
prerequested CSI for serving cell a.
FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining another embodiment of the
present invention.
Assume that the UE is connected to serving cell c and serving cell
a as illustrated in FIG. 13 and these cells transmit signals
through transmission point (TP) A. Serving cell c may support UL
CoMP using UL carriers of multiple TPs and a DL carrier linked with
a UL carrier of TP B which is one of TPs participating in UL CoMP
of serving cell c may not be configured for the UE. The UE may
receive, through serving cell c or serving cell a, a PUSCH grant,
which is a UL grant, indicating that a PUSCH carrying an aperiodic
CSI report should be transmitted through serving cell c. If the UE
is capable of designating a TP through which a PUSCH of the UE is
to be received, through carrier indication (CI) etc., the UE may
transmit the PUSCH to TP B by designating TP B. In this case, if
the UE is requested to perform aperiodic CSI reporting so as to
transmit CSI of a cell to which the PUSCH is allocated, since the
UE transmits the PUSCH to TP B, the UE transmits a CSI report for a
DL carrier linked with a UL carrier of serving cell c of TP B to TP
B. However, since the UE does not use the DL carrier of TP B in
serving cell c, the UE does not need to feed back CSI about the DL
carrier. At this time, the UE may disregard the CSI request and may
not perform feedback at all. That is, in this case, the aperiodic
CSI report corresponding to the CSI request may be dropped.
Alternatively, the UE may perform CSI reporting on a DL carrier of
serving cell c of TP A, which is a TP transmitting a PUSCH grant,
among DL carriers of serving cell c.
FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating elements of a transmitting
device 10 and a receiving device 20 for implementing the present
invention.
The transmitting device 10 and the receiving device 20 respectively
include Radio Frequency (RF) units 13 and 23 capable of
transmitting and receiving radio signals carrying information,
data, signals, and/or messages, memories 12 and 22 for storing
information related to communication in a wireless communication
system, and processors 11 and 21 operationally connected to
elements such as the RF units 13 and 23 and the memories 12 and 22
to control the elements and configured to control the memories 12
and 22 and/or the RF units 13 and 23 so that a corresponding device
may perform at least one of the above-described embodiments of the
present invention.
The memories 12 and 22 may store programs for processing and
controlling the processors 11 and 21 and may temporarily store
input/output information. The memories 12 and 22 may be used as
buffers.
The processors 11 and 21 generally control the overall operation of
various modules in the transmitting device and the receiving
device. Especially, the processors 11 and 21 may perform various
control functions to implement the present invention. The
processors 11 and 21 may be referred to as controllers,
microcontrollers, microprocessors, or microcomputers. The
processors 11 and 21 may be implemented by hardware, firmware,
software, or a combination thereof. In a hardware configuration,
application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal
processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs),
programmable logic devices (PLDs), or field programmable gate
arrays (FPGAs) may be included in the processors 11 and 21.
Meanwhile, if the present invention is implemented using firmware
or software, the firmware or software may be configured to include
modules, procedures, functions, etc. performing the functions or
operations of the present invention. Firmware or software
configured to perform the present invention may be included in the
processors 11 and 21 or stored in the memories 12 and 22 so as to
be driven by the processors 11 and 21.
The processor 11 of the transmitting device 10 performs
predetermined coding and modulation for a signal and/or data
scheduled to be transmitted to the outside by the processor 11 or a
scheduler connected with the processor 11, and then transfers the
coded and modulated data to the RF unit 13. For example, the
processor 11 converts a data stream to be transmitted into K layers
through demultiplexing, channel coding, scrambling, and modulation.
The coded data stream is also referred to as a codeword and is
equivalent to a transport block which is a data block provided by a
MAC layer. One transport block (TB) is coded into one codeword and
each codeword is transmitted to the receiving device in the form of
one or more layers. For frequency up-conversion, the RF unit 13 may
include an oscillator. The RF unit 13 may include N.sub.t (where
N.sub.t is a positive integer) transmit antennas.
A signal processing process of the receiving device 20 is the
reverse of the signal processing process of the transmitting device
10. Under control of the processor 21, the RF unit 23 of the
receiving device 20 receives radio signals transmitted by the
transmitting device 10. The RF unit 23 may include N.sub.r (where
N.sub.r is a positive integer) receive antennas and frequency
down-converts each signal received through receive antennas into a
baseband signal. The processor 21 decodes and demodulates the radio
signals received through the receive antennas and restores data
that the transmitting device 10 intended to transmit.
The RF units 13 and 23 include one or more antennas. An antenna
performs a function for transmitting signals processed by the RF
units 13 and 23 to the exterior or receiving radio signals from the
exterior to transfer the radio signals to the RF units 13 and 23.
The antenna may also be called an antenna port. Each antenna may
correspond to one physical antenna or may be configured by a
combination of more than one physical antenna element. The signal
transmitted from each antenna cannot be further deconstructed by
the receiving device 20. An RS transmitted through a corresponding
antenna defines an antenna from the view point of the receiving
device 20 and enables the receiving device 20 to derive channel
estimation for the antenna, irrespective of whether the channel
represents a single radio channel from one physical antenna or a
composite channel from a plurality of physical antenna elements
including the antenna. That is, an antenna is defined such that a
channel carrying a symbol of the antenna can be obtained from a
channel carrying another symbol of the same antenna. An RF unit
supporting a MIMO function of transmitting and receiving data using
a plurality of antennas may be connected to two or more
antennas.
In the embodiments of the present invention, a UE operates as the
transmitting device 10 in UL and as the receiving device 20 in DL.
In the embodiments of the present invention, an eNB operates as the
receiving device 20 in UL and as the transmitting device 10 in DL.
Hereinafter, a processor, an RF unit, and a memory included in the
UE will be referred to as a UE processor, a UE RF unit, and a UE
memory, respectively, and a processor, an RF unit, and a memory
included in the eNB will be referred to as an eNB processor, an eNB
RF unit, and an eNB memory, respectively.
According to the embodiments of the present invention, the eNB
processor may generate a higher layer signal, a PDCCH, and/or a
PDSCH and control the eNB RF unit to transmit the generated higher
layer signal, the PDCCH, and/or the PDSCH. The eNB processor may
set a CSI request field in DCI for UL transmission in a specific
cell according to any one of the embodiments of the present
invention. As an example, if a UE to which DCI is transmitted is
configured for a CoMP mode, i.e. if the UE is configured by one or
multiple CSI processes per serving cell, the CSI request field of
the DCI may be set according to any one of the embodiments of the
present invention. The eNB processor may control the eNB RF unit to
transmit the DCI on a PUCCH. The UE processor controls the UE RF
unit to receive the higher layer signal, the PDCCH, and/or the
PDSCH. The UE processor may receive the DCI for a specific cell on
the PDCCH. If the DCI includes the CSI request field and a CoMP
mode is configured for the UE by the higher layer signal, i.e. if
the UE is capable of being configured by one or more CSI processes
per serving cell, the UE processor determines the CSI request field
according to any one of the embodiments of the present invention.
For example, referring to Table 13, if the value of the CSI request
included in the DCI about a specific serving cell, received by the
RF unit of the UE configured for the CoMP mode is `01`, the UE
processor may control the UE RF unit to transmit an aperiodic CSI
report for a set of CSI process(es) configured by the higher layers
(e.g. RRC) among CSI process(es) configured for the specific
serving cell. If a subframe in which the DCI is received is
subframe n, the UE processor controls the RF unit to transmit the
aperiodic CSI report on a PUSCH to the specific serving cell in
subframe n+k. For FDD, k may be 4 and, for TDD, k may be given by
Table 11. The PUSCH is allocated to the specific cell according to
the DCI. Embodiment of the present invention can be applied even
when a serving cell to which a PDCCH carrying the DCI is allocated
is different from the specific serving cell used for transmission
of the aperiodic CSI report.
As described above, the detailed description of the preferred
embodiments of the present invention has been given to enable those
skilled in the art to implement and practice the invention.
Although the invention has been described with reference to
exemplary embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate
that various modifications and variations can be made in the
present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the
invention described in the appended claims. Accordingly, the
invention should not be limited to the specific embodiments
described herein, but should be accorded the broadest scope
consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed
herein.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to a BS, a
UE, or other devices in a wireless communication system.
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